Tuesday, August 4, 2026

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• dodo1

  dodo

  noun — A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.

  noun — A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt.

  noun — Fried plantain.

  Appeared in 16 recorded puzzles.

• done1

  done

  verb — (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.

  adjective — (of food) Ready, fully cooked.

  noun — A synthetic opioid analgesic, used to wean addicts off heroin or other opiate based narcotics, and in chronic pain management.

  verb — To perform; to execute.

  verb — To cause, make (someone) (do something).

  verb — To suffice.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• donee5

  donee

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  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• donned6

  donned

  verb — (clothing) To put on, to dress in.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• dowdy5

  dowdy

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• down1

  down

  noun — A negative aspect; a downer.

  verb — To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down, to fell.

  adjective — Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.

  adverb — From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.

  preposition — From the higher end to the lower of.

  noun — (especially southern England) A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• downed6

  downed

  verb — To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down, to fell.

  verb — To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.

  adjective — That has been brought down.

  verb — To lower; to put (something) down.

  verb — To defeat; to overpower.

  verb — To disparage, to put down.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• downy5

  downy

  adjective — Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or hair.

  noun — A blanket filled with down; a duvet.

  adjective — Sharp-witted, perceptive.

• doyen5

  doyen

  noun — A commander in charge of ten men.

  noun — The senior, or eldest male member of a group.

  noun — A leading light, or exemplar of a particular practice or movement.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• doyenne7

  doyenne

  noun — A female doyen.

  noun — The senior or eldest female member of a group, especially one who is most or highly respected.

  noun — A woman who is highly experienced and knowledgeable in a particular field, subject, or line of work; expert

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• endow5

  endow

  verb — To provide with a dower or a dowry.

  verb — To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.

  verb — Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.

  verb — Usually in the passive: to naturally furnish (with something).

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• endowed7

  endowed

  verb — To provide with a dower or a dowry.

  adjective — Provided or furnished with something.

  verb — To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.

  verb — Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.

  verb — Usually in the passive: to naturally furnish (with something).

  adjective — Founded by an endowment.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• hoed1

  hoed

  verb — To care, be anxious, long.

  verb — To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.

  verb — To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• hoedown7

  hoedown

  noun — A type of American folk or square dance.

  verb — To dance a hoedown dance

  noun — The type of music typically played for such a dance

  noun — A gathering at which such dances take place.

• hone1

  hone

  noun — A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.

  verb — To sharpen with a hone; to whet.

  noun — A kind of swelling in the cheek.

  verb — To grumble.

  noun — A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.

  verb — To use a hone to produce a precision bore.

  Appeared in 9 recorded puzzles.

• honed5

  honed

  verb — To sharpen with a hone; to whet.

  verb — To grumble.

  adjective — Made sharp.

  verb — To use a hone to produce a precision bore.

  verb — To refine or master (a skill).

  verb — To make more acute, intense, or effective.

• honey5

  honey

  noun — A viscous, sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees. Often used to sweeten tea or to spread on baked goods.

  verb — To sweeten; to make agreeable.

  adjective — Involving or resembling honey.

  noun — A variety of this substance.

  noun — Nectar.

  noun — Something sweet or desirable.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• honeydew15

  honeydew

  noun — A sweet sticky substance deposited on leaves by insects.

  adjective — Of a light bluish green colour, like that of a honeydew melon.

  noun — A sweet sticky substance produced by the leaves of some plants.

  noun — A melon with sweet green flesh, with a smooth greenish-white exterior, of cultivar group Cucumis melo Inodorus group.

  noun — A light bluish-green colour, like that of a honeydew melon.

  noun — A fine sort of tobacco moistened with molasses.

• honeyed7

  honeyed

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• hood1

  hood

  noun — A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.

  verb — To cover something with a hood.

  noun — Gangster, thug.

  noun — Neighborhood.

  adjective — Relating to inner-city everyday life, both positive and negative aspects; especially people’s attachment to and love for their neighborhoods.

  noun — Person wearing a hoodie.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• hooded6

  hooded

  verb — To cover something with a hood.

  adjective — Wearing a hood.

  adjective — Covered with a hood.

  adjective — Shaped like a hood.

  adjective — (of an animal) Having a crest or similar elastic skin in the neck area.

  adjective — (of clothing) Fitted with a hood.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• hoodoo6

  hoodoo

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  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• hooey5

  hooey

  noun — Silly talk or writing; nonsense, silliness, or fake assertion(s).

  noun — A hog-tie performed in a rodeo show.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• howdy5

  howdy

  noun — A wife, a midwife.

  verb — To greet informally, especially by saying "howdy"

  interjection — An informal greeting used in the South of the USA.

• neon1

  neon

  noun — The chemical element (symbol Ne) with an atomic number of 10. The lightest of the noble gases, it is a colourless, odorless inert gas.

  adjective — (of a color) That resembles a neon light; extremely bright; fluorescent

  noun — A form or sample of the element.

  noun — Neon signs or lights, collectively.

  noun — A neon tetra fish.

  Appeared in 23 recorded puzzles.

• nodded6

  nodded

  verb — To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.

  verb — To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting.

  verb — To sway, move up and down.

  verb — To gradually fall asleep.

  verb — To signify by a nod.

  verb — To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• node1

  node

  noun — A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.

  noun — The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.

  noun — A leaf node.

  noun — A computer or other device attached to a network.

  noun — The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; — called also knot.

  noun — The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• nohow5

  nohow

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• none1

  none

  noun — A person without religious affiliation.

  adverb — To no extent, in no way.

  pronoun — Not any of a given number or group.

  noun — Those without any religious affiliation: atheists and others outside any organized religion.

  noun — A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.

  noun — The middle of the afternoon, normally between 2 and 4 pm.

  Appeared in 23 recorded puzzles.

• noon1

  noon

  noun — The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.

  verb — To relax or sleep around midday

  noun — The letter ن in the Arabic script.

  noun — Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.

  noun — The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.

  noun — The highest point; culmination.

  Appeared in 43 recorded puzzles.

• odeon5

  odeon

  noun — An ancient Greek or Roman building used for performances of music and poetry.

  noun — A theatre or concert hall.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• owed1

  owed

  verb — To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.

  adjective — That owes.

  verb — To have debt; to be in debt.

• owned5

  owned

  verb — To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.

  verb — To grant; give.

  verb — To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.

  verb — To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.

  verb — To virtually or figuratively enslave.

  verb — To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• wood1

  wood

  noun — The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.

  verb — To cover or plant with trees.

  adjective — Mad, insane, crazed.

  noun — (sometimes offensive, of a person) A peckerwood.

  noun — The wood of a particular species of tree.

  noun — A forested or wooded area.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• wooded6

  wooded

  adjective — Covered with trees.

  verb — To cover or plant with trees.

  adjective — (of wine) Aged in wooden casks.

  verb — To hide behind trees.

  verb — To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.

  verb — To take or get a supply of wood.

• wooden6

  wooden

  adjective — Made of wood.

  adjective — As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• woody5

  woody

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• wooed5

  wooed

  verb — To endeavor to gain someone's support.

  verb — (often of a man) To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with

  verb — To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.

• woohoo6

  woohoo

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  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• wowed5

  wowed

  verb — To amaze or awe.

• yond1

  yond

  adjective — Further; more distant

  adverb — Yonder

  adjective — Furious; mad; angry; fierce.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• yoohoo6

  yoohoo

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  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.