Ugh, don’t you hate UNdays? I made it to QB, but only with clues for the UN above and for LUNULAE
And I tried GUNNEL and GUNNELL too!
Had a perfect day - got to Genius with no 4LW, then finished the remaining words out to Queen Bee. I usually don’t even try QB, but the point count was so low I thought why not.
I got a pangram first and then it was an easy ride to QB.
Today I got QB literally by guessing random combinations before I got what appears to be a phonetic spelling of an acronym (not sure how to blur so not adding) that I had to look up the (very modern) meaning of.
I’d have been really pissed to have missed QB by one point for that, but I’d have never got it intentionally.
I had to look in the clues for that one. And even that didn’t really help, so I was forced to Google, using the clue as my search criteria.
Sorry, but I’ve never heard of enby.
I probably learned that word on these boards.
I only stumbled on that word by trying various combinations of letters. And just the other day (Monday, December 29, 2025), the puzzle didn’t allow for gangbang or ballgag.
Maybe boring explanation. I asked a friend who is in the know.
Enby means Nonbinary which would be abbreviated as NB. The issue arises that some in the African American community have been using NB as non-Black already so something different was needed.
Yep, that’s what the Google search told me. So now I guess I’ve heard of it and don’t have an excuse when it invariably is used again.
COULOIR not accepted today, despite being in all the major dictionaries.
Not all words that are in all the dictionaries are accepted in SB. Lots of technical terms, for example, are not. Furthermore, it’s not required to be in all dictionaries to be accepted. The recently accepted ENBY is probably not.
Two verbs, both six letters, both beginning RA, both more commonly used in other forms: the noun RAMIFICATION and the adjective RARIFIED.
RAMIFY was accepted; RARIFY (much more common in its verb form, IMHO) was not.
WTF?
FAMILIAL, but not FAMILIALLY.
Regarding the second word (rarify), Merriam-Webster says it’s more commonly spelled as rarefy.
[Emily Litella] Never mind. [/EL]
I thought that RARIFY was worth trying too and disappointed that it wasn’t accepted.
What the hell? It doesn’t accept abattoir?
That annoyed me too
Me, three.
Nice though the abattoir is.