It’s supposed to be really hot tomorrow. But tonight there are fireworks popping off in the distance. Where are they? Probably everywhere.
Yesterday I missed UNFLEDGED (the second pangram), DUFFLE, FEND, FUGUE, FUNDED, UNDEFENDED, and UNFUNDED.
Meatier Misses
FUDDLE/D: Confused or stupefied, especially as a result of drinking alcohol.
Alcohol? Etymology time!
From the Online Etymology Dictionary:
fuddle (v.)
1580s, “to get drunk” (intransitive); c. 1600, “to confuse as though with drink” (transitive), of obscure origin, perhaps from Low German fuddeln “work in a slovenly manner (as if drunk),” from fuddle “worthless cloth.” The more common derivative befuddle dates only to 1873. Related: Fuddled; fuddling. A hard-drinker in 17c. might be called a fuddle-cap (1660s).
Cool! Get drunk to be fuddled!
FUGU: A puffer fish that is eaten as a Japanese delicacy, after some highly poisonous parts have been removed.
That something called Departures recommends a thing that can kill you seems very appropriate. I don’t know if they just took the article offline entirely (only for those efforts to be foiled by archive.org) because it’s crazy dangerous and irresponsible to recommend eating something known to be deadly. But literally deadly. Not like school cafeteria food deadly.
Today’s summary
Letters: RACKTWY
Final score: 21 words for 91 points.
Genius minimum: 89 points.
First word: ATTRACT.
Pangram: TRACKWAY.