Indeed. There should have been two pangrams.
Has anyone actually sent any suggestions to the buzzwords@nytimes.com address?
You mean dogpiled? I got the pangram but only because I knew it was 7 letters long and started with do. But I was nowhere near Queen Bee even with hints.
Yeah, that’s the one.
I had the time and determination and luck to make it to Queen Bee thanks to hints and googling, which did yield the super-obscure word, GEOIDE found by only 17% of players.
And yes, there should have been 2 pangrams.
I swung and missed with PEGLEG. So the list-makers don’t speak pirate?
Re. NANKEEN, maybe a Jane Austen or Regency historical fiction fan got them to reconsider. I knew the word because I’ve seen it in Austen and Georgette Heyer.
I’m pretty sure I didn’t try that more than twice. Or maybe 3 times.
The OP of this thread mentioned the missing word abattoir and it’s back again today. It’s an odd omission for a word that isn’t obscure. What drove me nuts was the certainty that I was misspelling it and that I would eventually hit on the right combination of letters.
VIVA is missing again. And ROTA.
Also: no luck on ARRABBIATA.
Mmm…arrabbiata…
I got genius with TRAITOR. Somehow appropriate to the days news. 
LOL it took me a while to find TRAITOR. It should have been more obvious to me!
And yes, strange that ABBATOIR, VIVA and ROTA are not on the list, but RAITA and ARBORIO are.
Just to mention another fun word genuinely too obscure to include: UNNUN. It’s like the nun version of being defrocked.
Didn’t take HALON, a fire-suppressant gas, today. Not obscure or technical to me but…
Or HOOCH or COOCH, but maybe they’re considered vulgar slang. AFAIK, the former is slang for bootleg booze.
Hooch has been accepted several times, including today. Kinda had to blur the whole sentence.
Oops, yeah. Sorry about that.
Chica? Yes, accepted. Chico? No, not accepted. That seems almost random.
Yeah, I griped about that back on Dec. 18. Plus, it seems to me that if they were going to pick only one to accept, it would have been the other one.
Chica is a plant.
Thanks. That seems to be the reason one word is accepted but the other is not.
They didn’t take INNKEEPING today.