Isn't it approtriate that MINUTE PETAL is in the posting just before the last one! It's
PENULTIMATE !

Did you know that snigglers store their catch in the
EEL HAMPER ?
(And they don't last very long even there...)

EEL HAMPER
ephemeral

After her meal of eel, the duchess often is escorted to the drawing room by her
WRIST BEARERS.

WRIST BEARERS

strawberries

At school I disliked Egyptology: I SCORNED TUT

I SCORNED TUT

destruction

a few small photos (and sketchy ones besides) make a
THIN ALBUM

THIN ALBUM

thumbnail

Another question, Jacques? Please.. do you have a favorite sport?

TENNIS, MERCI.

TENNIS, MERCI

reminiscent

Smaller than Jacob's ladder ... ISAAC'S TOE

ISAAAC'S TOE

associate

I just REALISED we used to use this calendar.

REALISED

A good one, Hab! sidereal... a fun word to pronounce!

A room full of kindergartners needs a:

NOISE SCAN

NOISE SCAN

canonises or ascension

In this forum we're always on the lookout for GLOOMINESS

GLOOMINESS

neologisms

The Scottish earth:

SOD CAIRN

SOD CAIRN

sardonic

You could RAISE PLANETS
or make EASIER PLANTS
but I prefer A PASTEL SIREN

A PASTEL SIREN

pleasantries

Poor Pluto... probably an
ICE GILT ALLOY... and now we're down to 8.

ICE GILT ALLOY

I can figure out what caused it, but only if you give me another O to make
ETIOLOGICALLY

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Hab,
No need for another "O". Think of government schooling and their wish for all to be great friends and supporters of one another. I wish I weren't so cynical.

Best I can manage is YET ILLOGICAL. Is it only one word, no hyphens, etc? It's not meant to be ILLOGICALITY is it? Swap an I for an E...

The word is collegiality.... cooperative interaction among colleagues. It's been stuffed down our throats. I'll let someone else have a go at a new word.

That was a toughie!

Do you wonder of our solar system erosion:
CAN IT END the MOON?

CAN IT END MOON

condemnation

Cuddled at the theatre lately?

SNUG AT the BIJOU.

SNUG AT the BIJOU

subjugation


Among urban legends, perhaps none is so insidious as the

SUGAR GYRO LIE

SUGAR GYRO LIE

gregariously

WC telling Grimm's tales at her knitting circle? A LITERAL YARN

LITERAL YARN

an artillery??? I'm stumped, dear Arnie.

I'd like to buy a vowel, please...

May we have a hint?

Ack! Sorry folks!

I'm afraid I've completely forgotten the word I had in mind.

Whatever it was, I probably got it wrong as well.

Anyone else like to post an anagram while I curl up in the corner somewhere?

Arnie, I almost did the same thing with condemnation. I had to fish the scratch paper I worked it out on out of the waste basket to remember it!

I was sure Literal Yarn ended in ally or tially, but couldn't make anything out of the first part--at least nothing that was a real word.

...I while back I started a PM to myself which I use to list the anagrams I post and their unscrambled origins. That way I have a crib sheet available just in case.

It also means the Board administrators can intervene if I disappear from the face of the Earth some day leaving everyone just bursting with unrequited curiosity. (I've discovered a marvelous proof of this, which unfortunately this margin is too small to contain...)

Who just set himself up as
FERMAT'S ROI NAIF?

wordmatic

FERMAT'S ROION NAIF

reaffirmations??

yes, but without the ON

So, KHC, you're up...

Hmm. If you were to take your LITERAL YARN and add another N, especially if you stuck it into your kidney, you could receive it INTRA-RENALLY.

Why do I doubt that that's the word you had in mind?

REAFFIRMATIONS

Sheesh, I am still befuddled.

Which socks do I wash??

DE STINKY ONES - 2 words!

It's KIDNEY STONES! I hope nothing recent brought the prhase to your mind...

How about a different kind of stone? The one you get from a CLEAN CURB for example.

No kidney stones at my house! Thanks for asking.

CARBUNCLE... yecchh..

CW and I close the libraries...

PATRONS RIOT!

PROSTRATION -- that's what you feel the morning after you've gotten up to empty your bladder, every hour on the hour all night long, right?

Next question: Would you bring parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme to market in your
HERB BOAT ?

HERB BOAT

bathrobe....

I like lonely cats, high on the hills:

DOG HATER

DOG HATER

Goatherd. Isn't the sound of their music wonderful?

Surely there's a show to produce VS HATER

VS HATER

harvest

Who will keep up the

WEED ISLES?

WEED ILES

Edelweiss. Nice one!

Born Julia Elizabeth Wells, and END LAW JURIES (Two Words)

JULIE ANDREWS

My first college roommate was a Julie fanatic... so I knew her real name.

Captain von Trapp: Do you mean to tell me that my children have been roaming about Salzburg dressed up in nothing but some old drapes?

SNOBS ARE... well, boring.

SNOBS ARE

Baroness

ALICE! GOOD! (cross-threading shamelessly)

ALICE GOOD

Logaoedic

MODERN TRUTHS .... Kaboom!

THUNDERSTORM

Do you have your own URL, MABEL ?

URL, MABEL

Yes, I have an umbrella.

Nothing worse than a
MOPY PARSNIP.... 2 words

Oh? Practically Perfect in Every Way, I thought...MARY POPPINS !

And she would only have EARTH-DROP ADE, of course. One word, but hyphenated.

72-hour hint: if the last word was MARY POPPINS, and the one before was UMBRELLA, does that suggest anything?

It suggests a lot of things, but nothing that fits EARTH DROP ADE!
I'm trying....