Wednesday, May 13, 2026

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• airball7

  airball

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  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• alibi5

  alibi

  noun — The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed

  verb — To provide an excuse for.

  verb — To provide an alibi for.

  Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.

• aril1

  aril

  noun — A tissue surrounding the seed in certain fruits such as pomegranates.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• bail1

  bail

  noun — Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.

  noun — Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.

  verb — To exit quickly.

  verb — To fail to meet a commitment.

  noun — A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).

  verb — To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.

  Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.

• bald1

  bald

  noun — A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

  verb — To become bald.

  adjective — Having no hair, fur or feathers.

  adjective — (by extension) Denuded of any hair- or fur-like covering.

  adjective — Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.

  adjective — (of a statement or account) Unembellished.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• ball1

  ball

  noun — A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.

  noun — A round or ellipsoidal object.

  verb — To play basketball.

  noun — A very enjoyable time.

  verb — To form or wind into a ball.

  noun — A formal dance.

  Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

• ballad6

  ballad

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  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• bilabial8

  bilabial

  adjective — Articulated with both lips.

  noun — A speech sound articulated with both lips.

  Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.

• bill1

  bill

  noun — A piece of paper money; a banknote.

  noun — A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.

  verb — To charge; to send a bill to.

  noun — A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

  noun — The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.

  noun — Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.

  Appeared in 22 recorded puzzles.

• billiard8

  billiard

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• biradial8

  biradial

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• blab1

  blab

  verb — To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.

  noun — Gossip; prattle.

  noun — One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.

  Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

• blizzard15

  blizzard

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• bridal6

  bridal

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• dial1

  dial

  noun — A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).

  noun — A clock face.

  verb — To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.

  verb — To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.

  noun — A sundial.

  noun — A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• dill1

  dill

  noun — Anethum graveolens (the type species of the genus Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed.

  verb — To cook or flavor with dill

  verb — To still; to assuage; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.

  noun — A cucumber pickled with dill flavoring

  noun — A fool.

  Appeared in 19 recorded puzzles.

• drill5

  drill

  noun — A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.

  verb — To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).

  noun — An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.

  verb — To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.

  noun — A small trickling stream; a rill.

  verb — To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• labia5

  labia

  noun — The folds of tissue at the opening of the vulva, at either side of the vagina.

  noun — A liplike structure; especially one of the two pairs of folds of skin either side of the vulva.

  noun — The lip of a labiate corolla.

  noun — The lip against which pressured air is driven to produce sound in a recorder and in a pipe organ with flue pipes.

  Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.

• labial6

  labial

  adjective — Of or pertaining to the lips or labia.

  adjective — Articulated by the lips, as the consonants b, m and w.

  noun — A consonant articulated by the lips.

  adjective — Of an incisor or canine, on the side facing the lips. See mesial.

  noun — Any of the scales bordering the mouth opening of a reptile.

  noun — An organ pipe having a lip that influences its sound.

  Appeared in 17 recorded puzzles.

• laid1

  laid

  verb — To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.

  verb — To produce and deposit an egg.

  verb — To have sex with.

  verb — To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.

  verb — To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).

  verb — To state; to allege.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• lair1

  lair

  noun — A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.

  noun — A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway.

  noun — A shed or shelter for domestic animals.

  noun — A bed or resting place.

  noun — A grave; a cemetery plot.

  verb — To rest; to dwell.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• lard1

  lard

  noun — Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.

  verb — To garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing.

  verb — To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.

  noun — Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.

  verb — To smear with fat or lard.

  verb — To fatten; to enrich.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• liar1

  liar

  noun — One who tells lies.

  noun — A swabber responsible for cleaning the outside parts of the ship rather than the cabins, a role traditionally assigned to a person caught telling a lie the previous week.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• lira1

  lira

  noun — The basic unit of currency in Turkey.

  noun — The former currency of Italy, Malta, San Marino, Cyprus and the Vatican City, superseded by the euro

  noun — The former currency of Israel, superseded by the sheqel.

  noun — The currency of Lebanon (also pound), Syria (also pound), Jordan (also dinar)

  noun — A Ukrainian folk musical instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.

  noun — Any of a set of fine ridges on the shells of some molluscs

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• lizard6

  lizard

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• radial6

  radial

  noun — A radial tire / radial tyre.

  adjective — Arranged like rays that radiate from, or converge to a common centre.

  adjective — Developing uniformly on all sides.

  adjective — Moving along a radius.

  adjective — Of, or relating to the radius bone.

  adjective — Of, or relating to the radius (vein), and/or the wing areas next to it.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• rail1

  rail

  noun — The metal bar that makes the track for a railroad.

  noun — A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.

  noun — A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.

  noun — A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.

  verb — To criticize severely.

  noun — Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• railbird8

  railbird

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• rial1

  rial

  noun — The official currencies of Iran, Oman, and Yemen.

  noun — An old gold coin of England.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• ribald6

  ribald

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• rill1

  rill

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  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.