I got QB without help today in the weirdest way. I am going to spoiler just to be careful but it’s the mildest spoiler ever.
I had such tunnel vision on the UN- and the -ED that I completely missed that there was an -ING. I was completely stuck with about 14 points to Genius when it finally hit me. It turned out that I had found every word that didn’t have that last ending so adding it as appropriate gave me the Queenship.
Tha stats seem to be in sync now? A relatively easy but somewhat monotonous one, because of what’s in hajario’s spoiler above.
And yet, yond is allowed today. Yours shows as not misspelled in my browser, but mine shows a spelling error.
While not exactly a common word, I feel like hymnody is no more obscure than some of the ones that make regular appearances. 
Today’s gave me some heartburn, but then so did the NYT Mini Crossword and Wordle, so I think I’m just having a brain fart day.
It always surprises me which words are and which are not in their word list, but the issue seems unusually bad today. Google Ngram results show that hymnody, endonym, hoodoo, and monody (none acceptable) are all more commonly used than yoohoo (acceptable) and all but one of them are more common than doomy (also acceptable).
Nitpick: one of those doesn’t have today’s index letter, but it has been accepted in the past on numerous occasions.
I can’t believe I didn’t notice that. Thanks for pointing it out because now I won’t be dissuaded from trying it again in the future.
Yeah, I usually get that particular one towards the end.
I’m surprised that HOMONYMY was allowed, but MONONYMY wasn’t.
Yup, always been true, but I try it every. single. time.
No NAVAID? How anteDILUVIAN…
What the heck? Is decile an obscure word? I guess my browser has it as a spelling error.
Yesterday with had BILLION and BILLIONTH. We had NONILLION but not NONILLIONTH.
Yes, and why aren’t INLINE and LINDEN allowed today?
INLINE is never allowed. Maybe it’s hyphenated.
Neither has ever been allowed, but I would certainly vote for either of them to be included.
Why would the name of a common tree not be included in the word list?
Agreed - common enough that there are 24 cities/towns named it in the US, not to mention all the streets, roads, avenues, and lanes.
I used to live on that avenue.