Today’s Dodger game was rough to take in. Lots of chances and no follow-through. The solo home run off Max Scherzer was enough to carry the Giants all the way, and the defense kept snuffing out would-be Dodger rallies. The wind with gusts that turned the sky to grays and browns did nothing to help the boys in blue put any runs on the board. Really disappointing, but maybe tomorrow will be better.
Yesterday I missed AGITA, ATILT, ATTAGIRL, IOTA, RAITA, RIOT, ROTI, ROTOTILL, TILT, TRATTORIA, and TRIO.
Meatier Misses
Some of these are real random words that show how ridic this thing is.
ARIL: Botany An extra seed-covering, typically colored and hairy or fleshy, e.g., the red fleshy cup around a yew seed.
GIRT: past participle of gird
GLIA/GLIAL: Anatomy The connective tissue of the nervous system, consisting of several different types of cell associated with neurons.
GRIOT: A member of a class of traveling poets, musicians, and storytellers who maintain a tradition of oral history in parts of West Africa.
LITTORAL: Relating to or situated on the shore of the sea or a lake.
OTALGIA: Medicine Earache.
TAIGA: The sometimes swampy coniferous forest of high northern latitudes, especially that between the tundra and steppes of Siberia and North America.
Today’s summary
Letters: FACILOR
Final score: 37 words for 149 points.
Genius minimum: 144 points.
First word: FRAIL.
Last word: COLORIFIC. That was a desperation play. I did not know that was a word.
Pangram: ???
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