I was amused that two of the Pangrams for today (Wed., Sept. 11) are Burping and Upbringing. Every now and then, my inner eight-year-old comes out…
No luck for me on either GURN/GURNING or, surprisingly, GUNRUNNING.
It was sure that gunrunning was allowed at some point, but it never has been.
And today’s omission: tombola.
Otherwise, not too shabby.
While the absence of DICKHEAD did not surprise me, I admit I had to try it anyway. What a fine, fine pangram that would have been.
My thoughts exactly. I always try the rude words just for fun.
I found the actual pangram today much more challenging than “dickhead”.
Dickhead is far more commonly used than acidhead.
What I came here to post.
Yesterday there were just 4 words left unsolved when I discovered the pangram. Today it was the 3rd word that I found.
I’m spoilering yesterday’s words because, as I’ve found, it’s possible to keep playing games that are up to a week old.
Yes, it took me forever to find CHICKADEE and ACIDHEAD. I don’t know why it took me so long to get the former because when my kids were little, “Five Little Chickadees” was one of their favorite rhymes: https://youtu.be/CgMixRuLnHU?t=123
Sam still doesn’t like LIANA. 
For today he doesn’t like ANILINE either.
And I’m sure that LIANAs are far more plentiful than BAOBABs. 
He doesn’t like ALANINE, either.
Spoiler tags, please! As jut noted, these games can be played for a few days.
These are words that aren’t accepted. They’re not part of the game. We do spoiler accepted words.
Do you want the non-spelling bee words spoilered?
I take your point, but sometimes the non-accepted words include or are very similar to accepted words. I’ll retract my request, however.
Spoilering this word that Sam doesn’t take today, much to my indignation:
MIDDEN
Why not? I was just reading an article about their importance in archaeological research.
Has any poster here ever contacted Sam / the Times about words that should be included and aren’t?
Today’s seven letters included e and d as well as i, n and g, so for many words, I had to try -ed and -ing variants. It’s a bit tiresome and I think I prefer when the puzzle doesn’t include those options.
We have one of those in our backyard! The house was built in the mid-1700s, and most of the stuff collected was late 1800s/early 1900s, but includes a big box of early bottles, some crockery (mostly damaged), and some old toys. The prior owners took most of the intact stuff with them, though.
Ditto. It’s more like exercise when there are that many suffixes.