Babble: Archived Puzzle for Thursday, August 14, 2025

12:00 am

cybernan

hi everyone - doubt I will finish but will start

12:01 am

Rainiqui

Hi Nan and everyone

12:05 am

jbp

howdy flippers

12:14 am

Rainiqui

so 7

12:15 am

cybernan

phantom stowaway

12:17 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:17 am

rebelsass

thanks, lickety

12:17 am

jbp

thanks, Lickety!

12:23 am

Rainiqui

nbt, nbs, po 8

12:30 am

cybernan

te 8

12:31 am

cybernan

not seeing the so or po though - time for bed -- good night

12:32 am

rebelsass

night, nan!

12:32 am

cybernan

de 8

12:37 am

sprite

morning babblers

12:37 am

rebelsass

morning, sprite! *hugs*

12:37 am

sprite

hiya rebel

12:42 am

rebelsass

ac7/8

1:39 am

sprite

sneaky Z

1:48 am

rebelsass

yeah it is.

2:22 am

rebelsass

phantom plastic keeps getting in my way....

4:53 am

sprite

back at last. We had to hand in the loan car... the lady said: "There is a little dust on the roof. You have to wash the car first." Seriously. Lol.

5:24 am

sprite

fireflies and poofing

8:46 am

hurshy

if monk worked at a car rental that's what he'd do

8:57 am

phaeton

yc? really??

8:58 am

LuvWordGames

oh geez, I hadn't looked at the list! That's crazy. Definitely going to be looking that one up

9:02 am

phaeton

it's yc7/48

9:02 am

saanichcat

yc is a past tense, not much help I know!

9:02 am

phaeton

phantom: teapot

9:05 am

saanichcat

phaeton change the lat letter to sometimes vowel

9:05 am

phaeton

ty saani

9:06 am

saanichcat

yw!

9:25 am

mael

phantom: pelican

9:26 am

hokie carla

howdy, folks

9:30 am

hokie carla

phantom special

9:35 am

hokie carla

phantom aecia

10:01 am

maccafixx

te 6/27?

10:04 am

BzznBea

Change the last letter of the spouted vessel

10:04 am

phaeton

any help with the ap7?

10:04 am

hokie carla

thanks, bea. a table for serving.

10:05 am

hokie carla

do you know which A it's from? how many points? I need one A to gray last col.

10:06 am

Sugrraleona

any clue for the ic6?

10:06 am

saanichcat

th ap 7 rhymes with the 12 ap of the bible, change. last two letter

10:06 am

hokie carla

ic6 looks like a plural if you add a letter to the 4

10:06 am

Sugrraleona

ty

10:06 am

hokie carla

thanks, saan. last col gray!

10:07 am

phaeton

ty! FW

10:07 am

saanichcat

hiya carla! yvw

10:07 am

hokie carla

looks like that ic6 is an alt sp of ic5. weird.

10:08 am

saanichcat

congrats phaeton!

10:08 am

hokie carla

congrats, phae

10:09 am

phaeton

ty

10:09 am

phaeton

any clues wanted?

10:09 am

saanichcat

my IPad is almost dead, it's not all my typos

10:10 am

hokie carla

59 left here and HOET. guess I will empty the dishwasher

10:24 am

crosshair

Found the yc 7/48, but took a lot t of trial and error and using winevrrygsme.com to get it. :/

10:25 am

crosshair

Wineverygame.com that is.

10:28 am

crosshair

It is an archaic adjective that means "to call," or "to name." I know that is not much help. :/

10:29 am

crosshair

Old Engish it seems.

10:31 am

saanichcat

spoiler alert : put the y in front of cl 6/27

10:37 am

rururocks

Two to go

10:40 am

BzznBea

I have found more words today than I have all together this week.

10:41 am

crosshair

Ty bzznbea

10:42 am

crosshair

I mean saanichcat.

10:51 am

hokie carla

but what if we can't find cl6/27. LOL

10:53 am

BzznBea

starts like the person who steals all the time

10:54 am

hokie carla

ok, want it to be clapped but tried clepped at least twice. will keep monkeying around.

10:55 am

penquis

it's a pt....

10:55 am

BzznBea

you are close with the second word

10:55 am

hokie carla

thanks, village

10:59 am

hokie carla

so I've been working a couple of days on IDing all my mom's depression glass. I don't think I told this story the other night, but I might have. There were 2 things I was washing and noticed they had labels on the bottom. when I put my glasses on I could read they were Avon from 1978. the cruet stopper was missing the gasket, but the label said it'd had skin so soft in it.

10:59 am

hokie carla

the candlestick said patchwork cologne and I noticed the top moved so I pulled it off and it was still full of that cologne! The smell is finally out of my kitchen today. or my nose is blind now.

10:59 am

BzznBea

Lots of Avon bottles out there.

11:00 am

hokie carla

thankful I opened it over the sink

11:00 am

hokie carla

my mom was an Avon lady back then, maybe the last year she did it because she went back to work when I went to school

11:01 am

Gillie

not really depression glass if it's from 1978, is it?

11:02 am

hokie carla

lol, no

11:02 am

Gillie

I had a great aunt who used to send my Avon things sometimes - I remember an awful perfume that came in a bottle shaped like a tortoise

11:02 am

Gillie

*send me*

11:03 am

hokie carla

but it was the ruby red glass that matched some of the DG she had so I assume that's why it was kept

11:03 am

hokie carla

one time I was in a wreck with my mom and an avon lady let us wait in her house. she gave me a donkey with some perfume in it. I still had that but might have tossed it when we moved here.

11:04 am

hokie carla

ps - I was standing in the front seat of the car next to her when she rear ended someone and hit my head on the dashboard. it is a wonder we made it out of the 70s.

11:05 am

BzznBea

60 left for later.

11:05 am

Gillie

well, my parents always put us in the back and insisted that we wear seatbelts

11:05 am

hokie carla

bye bea

11:05 am

hokie carla

I don't think there were seatbelts then. maybe lap belts.

11:05 am

hokie carla

definitely don't think they had car seats or booster seats

11:06 am

Gillie

I think they were lap belts early on

11:07 am

Gillie

and there were baby car seats from before 1933, apparently

11:07 am

gemini_J13

those baby car seats were dangerous

11:07 am

Gillie

the first ones for safety were produced from 1962 on

11:08 am

Gillie

I'm pretty sure my brother had one, at least

11:11 am

hokie carla

and my dermatologist tells me sunscreen was around too, but that doesn't mean we had any

11:12 am

Gillie

I do remember that people were very resistant to wearing seatbelts when they became mandatory

11:13 am

hokie carla

surprisingly still people very resistant to it

11:18 am

EvaNadine

given that I was told outright that my seatbelt saved me life a few years back, it's not an option for anyone in my care -- buckle up or walk.

11:24 am

hokie carla

yeah, I had to pull that with one of my kid's friend. I think I also told him I wasn't getting a ticket for him.

11:27 am

Gillie

there was a story recently about a family both of whose kids drowned on a rafting trip - they think the lesson is that the schools need to teach swimming, but they don't seem to have considered life jackets

11:29 am

penquis

need a break....bbl....bye all...

11:32 am

hokie carla

bye pen!

11:33 am

hokie carla

what kind of rafting trip was it? those usually require everyone to wear life jackets.

11:33 am

hokie carla

also, plenty of people who know how to swim drown on rafting trips. foot entrapment is a thing.

11:34 am

Gillie

just family members in their own raft, I think

11:35 am

Gillie

foot entrapment wasn't an issue in this case, but rivers can be difficult to swim in even for people who are good at it, depending on the current

11:36 am

Gillie

one of them thought he could swim, I guess - he jumped in to try to save his sister

11:37 am

hokie carla

that's sad but yeah, life jackets in rivers with currents

11:38 am

hokie carla

and do all your schools have pools? mine did not - only one high school in our whole sports district had one. I doubt any elementary schools do.

11:39 am

periwinkle

hello all. help with de8 or pe8 please

11:39 am

Gillie

no - very few of our schools have pools, I think, but there are public pools that give group lessons. I did get lessons briefly through school in Junior High, as I recall

11:41 am

hokie carla

hey peri ,have neither

11:41 am

Gillie

the de8 describes a tyrant

11:41 am

periwinkle

ty Gillie

11:42 am

Gillie

yw

12:08 pm

hokie carla

ah, thanks

12:08 pm

hokie carla

didn' thave the root either

12:34 pm

hurshy

grrrreetings

12:34 pm

hurshy

i'm channeling Tony the Tiger today

12:35 pm

hurshy

i only worked on As before work

12:35 pm

hurshy

missing one from each A tile except for the lower left one

12:36 pm

hurshy

if anyone has any of those complete and wants to assist

12:36 pm

hurshy

cause phantom: aecia

12:37 pm

Gillie

ap7 from upper right?

12:37 pm

Lewandjoy

Stone

12:37 pm

Lewandjoy

Stoned

12:37 pm

Gillie

and ap6 from lower middle

12:37 pm

Lewandjoy

Tone

12:37 pm

Lewandjoy

Toned

12:37 pm

hurshy

yes looks like i need ap7 gillie, but i have ap6

12:38 pm

Lewandjoy

Apse

12:38 pm

hurshy

got the 7!

12:38 pm

hurshy

wrong box Lew

12:39 pm

hurshy

aHA it was a second ac7 from the lower middle

12:39 pm

Gillie

Nothing unusual from upper left, I think

12:39 pm

hurshy

ah ok thanks, got that now too then!

12:39 pm

hurshy

As Abolished!

12:41 pm

hurshy

Ns Nailed!

12:45 pm

hurshy

how about any guess for one missing lower left E?

12:46 pm

hurshy

phantoms; iota, icecap

12:49 pm

hurshy

Os Overturned!

12:55 pm

Gillie

well, there's one 7 I'm sure I've never seen before

12:56 pm

hurshy

for the E? or for what?

12:56 pm

Gillie

The Y

12:56 pm

hurshy

oh then that's my missing Y!

12:56 pm

hurshy

sounds like i will need a clue

12:57 pm

Gillie

it's just a Y stuck on the beginning of another weird one - yc7

12:57 pm

hurshy

whoa, thanks

12:57 pm

hurshy

2 for the price of one

12:59 pm

hurshy

Ls Lambasted! right col grey!

1:00 pm

hurshy

do you know if there is a DW? i miss one upper D

1:04 pm

hurshy

name that proper noun! hero/traitor (depending on your views) who leaked info about what the US gov't was doing and then fled to Russia

1:04 pm

rururocks

No dw

1:04 pm

hurshy

thanks ruru

1:10 pm

hurshy

any weird p words like PS or PT or heaven forbid PZ?

1:11 pm

hokie carla

snowden

1:11 pm

hurshy

ding ding ding!!!

1:17 pm

hurshy

phantom: twenty

2:35 pm

periwinkle

po8 please

2:38 pm

hokie carla

well, I finished my vintage glass spreadsheet after researching and photographing for 2 days and sent it to my brothers and the one says "surprise me"

2:40 pm

hokie carla

it's not posticle, peri

2:40 pm

periwinkle

ok

2:40 pm

periwinkle

there are two da8. I have one

2:41 pm

periwinkle

sorry there are two de8. I have one

2:41 pm

hokie carla

I only have ac8 and de8 clued earlier

2:41 pm

periwinkle

but there is one da8 that I do not have

2:41 pm

periwinkle

that is the de8 that I have too

2:44 pm

hokie carla

so 2 de8 and 1 da8?

2:44 pm

periwinkle

yes

2:44 pm

hokie carla

I don't see anything

2:44 pm

hokie carla

oh, maybe looking at the wrong D

2:45 pm

periwinkle

the da8 is the first da word

2:45 pm

hokie carla

but from which D tile? I just need one on the top but need 6 from the lower D.

2:45 pm

periwinkle

I don't know

2:46 pm

hokie carla

if the DA8 is the first word it probably is from the top

2:46 pm

hokie carla

based on 3rd letter option

2:46 pm

BzznBea

po8 is a compound

2:48 pm

periwinkle

not seeing it Bea

2:50 pm

BzznBea

small body of water and unwanted plant

2:50 pm

hokie carla

well they'll just stick everything together, won't they? well, except the ones I think should be.

2:50 pm

periwinkle

thanks so much Bea

2:50 pm

BzznBea

The da8 ends with the same word

2:51 pm

hokie carla

thanks again

2:51 pm

periwinkle

ty Bea new word for me

2:54 pm

periwinkle

I have the de8 that extends the tyrant. help with other de8 please

2:55 pm

periwinkle

there is also a te8 that I do not have

2:56 pm

hokie carla

ah, ends like my made up po8

2:56 pm

hokie carla

male body part

2:56 pm

periwinkle

ty carla

2:57 pm

hokie carla

of course I typed teste today like I do every time it's here

2:57 pm

periwinkle

bbl

3:25 pm

MollyL

Carla keeps trying to crop the testes. Ack!

3:29 pm

hurshy

ah, it's so nice to come back to clues for the two 8s i didn't have

3:29 pm

BzznBea

yw

3:29 pm

hurshy

testis is the singular of testes hokie

3:30 pm

hurshy

i mean when it's not te8, which it also is

3:30 pm

hurshy

how are you today bea?

3:32 pm

hurshy

woot woot bottom row grey!

3:34 pm

hurshy

fairly good grid, 12 left now

3:37 pm

BzznBea

I'm glad that I will get this one finished. Haven't finished a grid for a while.

3:56 pm

72 Temple Owl

i am stopped dead at 173

4:03 pm

harpjane

nbt was easy to day

4:08 pm

BzznBea

I'm missing a te5

4:13 pm

hurshy

is it te5/16?

4:20 pm

periwinkle

does anyone have both de8?

4:24 pm

Otis the Bear

just found the first one - served in a church position, second is terrible ruler

4:26 pm

periwinkle

It was the first I was missing thank you Otis

4:26 pm

Otis the Bear

yvw

4:26 pm

periwinkle

still 83 left

4:38 pm

cybernan

hi everyone - have never heard the churchy de 6 being used as a verb before

4:52 pm

MollyL

This is the land of Enable where words no one has ever heard of, magically come to life.

4:56 pm

Sugrraleona

im confused on the 2nd da8 - I got the one that extends the tyrant, may I have clarification for the other?

4:57 pm

Sugrraleona

mean the other de8

5:11 pm

MollyL

See what Nan said below

5:12 pm

Sugrraleona

its ok, the convo goes back to 2:41 and I don't see it.

5:18 pm

MollyL

What Nan said at 4:56

5:19 pm

MollyL

Sorry, 4:38

5:20 pm

MollyL

Churchy de6 plus 2

5:46 pm

MollyL

yc7...only in Babble

6:55 pm

cybernan

hi again

7:03 pm

penquis

hi nan...

7:08 pm

cybernan

co 4/11 -- really ?!!

7:08 pm

cybernan

hi pen

7:12 pm

penquis

we have had it before...

7:13 pm

penquis

the "winner" today is the yc 7....

7:17 pm

cybernan

yes - haven't found it yet

7:17 pm

cybernan

de 6 following the Trump style leadership

7:18 pm

cybernan

please?

7:18 pm

penquis

to hate...

7:19 pm

cybernan

ty - looking at the wrong de

7:19 pm

penquis

the yc is y + c*****...it's a pt....another very weird word in the grid....

7:21 pm

cybernan

ty again pen

7:22 pm

penquis

yw...i had to look it up....

7:26 pm

penquis

i am done...couldn't have finished without the list...

7:26 pm

penquis

tough grid...

7:27 pm

cybernan

yes -- taking a break - supper time for me

7:29 pm

penquis

i am heading out....bye all....

7:29 pm

hokie carla

rehi. still 49 left here.

7:30 pm

hokie carla

bye pen!

7:36 pm

penquis

*waving as I go out the door*.....

8:11 pm

hokie carla

well, I think I'm going to leave 35 in the bucket

8:51 pm

cybernan

hi again - looks like everyone gave up

9:03 pm

mkg

need clues for the 7s and 8s please. ty.

9:05 pm

mkg

i love that trump clue. ty

9:13 pm

mkg

got a de 8.

9:20 pm

cybernan

there are two - the trumplike one and the churchy one

9:20 pm

cybernan

also a da 8

9:23 pm

mkg

ty.

9:23 pm

mkg

dont know the churchy one. but i am fine as is. need sevens as i have none. ty nan

9:26 pm

mkg

got the church one. ty

9:26 pm

mkg

and the de 7 as well. ty

9:27 pm

Jacula

mkg - ac7/32 - nail varnish remover. ac7/32 - how to describe nail varnish remover.

9:28 pm

mkg

ty! super! ty

9:28 pm

mkg

got 7 and 8

9:28 pm

mkg

off for the night. ty all cluers.

9:29 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

greetings, sufferers

9:29 pm

Jacula

'Night mkg.

9:29 pm

Jacula

Hi Gwen. I've just finished the grid.

9:31 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

wtg! i hardly ever finish one of these monsters

9:44 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

halfway done woot

10:52 pm

cybernan

dark already - where did summer go

11:16 pm

cybernan

12 left and I've had enough -- good night :)

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