We alternate Bee days. More and more I toss the ED + ING puzzles to my lovely wife. They bore me.
DOTCOM isn’t accepted today, unlike previous puzzles.
Welcome to MIDLINE. I dunno. It’s been rejected twice before and they should have kept it that way, imo.
I suppose WILDMEN is properly two words, but still no luck on MIDDEN either which is a shame.
I know, what’s up with that?
It isn’t an obscure cullinary term from Lower Slobbovia or Elbonia.
Sam still doesn’t know about LIANAs or ANILINE dye. And now we find he doesn’t have a PINEAL gland.
Or ALANINE.
Another slog. Also, it turns out one has more success if one gets one’s vowels in the right order in a certain pangram…
Four tries, it took me… 
Still no INLINE.
There’s a bunch of compound words I might have expected to be accepted today (e.g. WINDDOWN) but not many of them were.
Well, today’s puzzle is one for the record books, I think. Has Genius ever been as low as 46?
Went by quickly, certainly.
I didn’t spot any obvious omissions (with the possible exception of HELLA) but one of the included words was REALLY obscure.
Well yes, since you asked. The lowest point score was for the pangram MORTIFY with the ‘F’ in the middle (47 total.) Genius level was 33 points.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I hated today’s game. I could tell even before beginning that virtually all the words were going to start with the same letter. I hate that.
You didn’t mean helve by any chance. By comparison, aniline that was wasn’s allowed a few days ago is a very common word. I had to google that word (which I just guessed to get to QB at the end) to see it really existed. On the other hand he allowed both possible spellings of halva(h) which really annoys me. But I did try them both, knowing his attitude to alternate spellings.
I needed a hint to get that word.
We’ve had that word before. I remember the first time it showed up going to look it up.
Yes, that was the one.
I had never heard that word, but just put a few letters together that seemed plausible, and got it. The last word before Queen Bee.
Oh, and today’s pangram? That’s a thing?