Babble: Archived Puzzle for Tuesday, November 18, 2025

12:05 am

Rainiqui

This is really getting tiresome

12:05 am

cybernan

hi everyone - did anyone else have trouble logging on?

12:06 am

Rainiqui

Every day now

12:06 am

cybernan

same here

12:09 am

justafreep

ae7 and yes on a slow start

12:11 am

Lizlin

ri7 and ti7

12:14 am

JoyO

Riot

12:17 am

MetFan

Phantom: eating

12:18 am

rururocks

Hey met!!

12:18 am

rururocks

How are you?

12:18 am

justafreep

ti7 x 2

12:18 am

MetFan

Retired and loving it! Hows by you, ruru?

12:19 am

rururocks

I am retiring soon too

12:19 am

MetFan

Kewl...

12:20 am

rururocks

Are you still friends with pugmama?

12:20 am

rururocks

All my friends on long island are Met fans

12:20 am

MetFan

Yes, but she's been having a rough time for health reasons - she's got a spinal condition which makes her VERY uncomfortable

12:21 am

rururocks

Oh. I was worried about her. Give her a hello from me

12:21 am

MetFan

Haven't actually seen her for five years, but we keep in touch thru phone and e-mail.

12:22 am

rururocks

I like her. Really funny person

12:22 am

MetFan

I certainly shall...how long before you retire?

12:23 am

rururocks

End of this year

12:24 am

MetFan

Good luck with all of that - my retirement has been one crapstorm after another, but I think finally all will settle.

12:25 am

MetFan

IDK why all your Long Island friends are Metfans, but I was born in Flushing, NY, their home

12:25 am

rururocks

It is going to be a new world for me

12:25 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:26 am

Lizlin

Thanks, Lickety

12:26 am

rururocks

They were friends of the Wilpons

12:26 am

MetFan

Pugmama doesn't do Babble anymore - she's on Words with friends and Facebook. I refuse to go on facebook

12:27 am

rururocks

I dropped facebook a long time ago

12:28 am

MetFan

I'm back here as an exercise to keep my mind alert.

12:29 am

rururocks

Me too

12:29 am

MetFan

I'm still on Long Island, don't want to move. Yet.

12:30 am

cybernan

na 7

12:30 am

rururocks

I was in massapequa in August

12:31 am

MetFan

Why didn't ya look me up? I'm still in the phone book

12:32 am

rururocks

Oh i will. My buddy owned a furniture store in flushing

12:33 am

MetFan

I'm still in Massapequa Park

12:33 am

sprite

morning babblers

12:34 am

rururocks

That’s the top of the island ? Right?

12:34 am

rururocks

Hi sprite

12:34 am

sprite

hiya ru :)

12:36 am

MetFan

No, south shore in Nassau, right on the border of Suffolk

12:36 am

cybernan

good night everyone

12:36 am

MetFan

My e-mail is still in my profile. Get in touch!

12:37 am

rururocks

Oh. That’s where i was. On beach street

12:37 am

rururocks

Right on the water

12:37 am

rururocks

Night nan

12:38 am

MetFan

I'm a bit north of the water, about a mile north of the now-defunct Sunrise Mall

12:38 am

MetFan

Nigh, Nan

12:38 am

MetFan

I mean Goodnight

12:40 am

rururocks

Not seeing that na7

1:09 am

MetFan

Going to sleep. Goodnight, ruru. E-mail me!!

2:44 am

rbud

when you find the na7, it will tell quite a story.

3:00 am

JoyO

Thanks, rbud.

3:01 am

rbud

you're welcome! :D

3:28 am

Gillie

en7

7:02 am

mkg

gillie any meaning? or syn?

7:13 am

crosshair

Good morning, Babblers. :)

7:13 am

Scrabbler

Hi Crossy! How are you and Mrs Elegant doing?

7:16 am

crosshair

Scrabby! We are doing fine. Getting older is not for the weak, but we still manage to get out on our Bruce Trail now and then. We already dug out from our first snowstorm a few days ago, but it has since melted away. Just enjoying the retirement life. :)

7:18 am

Scrabbler

Saem here. I am starting PT for R hip pain x 9 months, but an MRI showed no need for surgery. I have no pain when hiking so I get out almost daily.

7:19 am

crosshair

Then there is the "honey-do" lists :/ Many years ago, my father-in-law said something I found funny at the time. During his second year of retirement he said: "I honesty do not know how I found time to work for a living." I laughed at the time, but I undestand him beter now.

7:20 am

crosshair

Yup, use it or lose it, my doctor says, but it is rough going sometimes.

7:22 am

Scrabbler

Haha. It is time for me to call a handyman. I enjoy doing some projects myself though.

7:22 am

crosshair

My beloved is waiting on a call from the surgeons office. She has had shoulder issues for the last year. :(

7:23 am

crosshair

Tendons are a mess.

7:24 am

crosshair

Our G.P ordered an MRI and called us to say her shoulder is a mess, but did not specify. Now we wait.

7:24 am

varumba

Hi everyone

7:25 am

crosshair

Morning, varumba. :)

7:25 am

Scrabbler

Hi Varumba.

7:25 am

varumba

hey scrab, crossy

7:26 am

crosshair

We just got a new MRI machine at our little hospital though, so that is good news.

7:26 am

Scrabbler

Crossy, I fell and tore 3 shoulder tendons in 2022 then had surgery in early 2023. The MRI will reveal the plan for her.

7:26 am

crosshair

Our town is only 27,000, but our ski hill gives imaging lots of out of town customers

7:27 am

Scrabbler

Is there an orthopedic office in town?

7:28 am

crosshair

Not sure, scrabby, but we have a larger town an hour away that does, so we are stck waiting for a call from their office.

7:28 am

Scrabbler

When a local ski center expanded years ago an orthopedic group created an office next door. Brilliant business decision.

7:29 am

crosshair

We have been pushing for a clinic at the base of the hill for many years. Something to divert simple breaks from the main hospital.

7:30 am

Scrabbler

It would be so profitable for an ortho group.

7:31 am

crosshair

During ski season here in Collingwood, wait times can be five hours or more, so us locals often use the Owen Sound hospital an hour away.

7:31 am

Scrabbler

Smart.

7:32 am

crosshair

I cannot tell you how many snowboarders I have seen in the waiting room with a broken wrist.

7:32 am

Scrabbler

Hospitals will be overwhelmed with flu and COVID soon, as surges are beginning.

7:33 am

Scrabbler

FOOSH injury = Fall On Outstretched Hand

7:33 am

crosshair

Yes, and this year we did not get a good vaccine match with this years varriant.

7:33 am

Scrabbler

The UK is currently drowning in flu and COVID.

7:34 am

crosshair

Ugh. Sign of what's to come.

7:35 am

Scrabbler

So many docs and nurses are disabled from Long COVID that hospitals are understaffed.

7:35 am

ElaineMD

II don't think we are drowning in flu and covid

7:35 am

crosshair

Got my covid shot onboard already.

7:36 am

Scrabbler

I have physician friends in the UK. It's bad.

7:36 am

ElaineMD

certainly not where I am living anyway

7:36 am

Sugrraleona

I think in genreel people have to stop believing everything they read and see in the media -- and do their own research to find the truth -- it's just out of hand.

7:36 am

crosshair

You are fortunate then, Elaine.

7:36 am

Scrabbler

Be safe, Elaine.

7:37 am

ElaineMD

thank you

7:37 am

crosshair

I get all my shots and say a little orayer. My lungs are not what they once were.

7:37 am

crosshair

Prayer.

7:39 am

crosshair

You get your flu/covid shot yet, sugrraleona?

7:40 am

Sugrraleona

yes, we get flu shot every year -- we are all against getting any more covid shots -- we are unsure if the shots or Covid itself is causing all those awful long side effects -- its just our own choice to not get anymore shots -- we all, back in the day, got a total of 4 shots each.

7:40 am

Scrabbler

We desperately need a more effective COVID-19 vaccine.

7:40 am

crosshair

I just follow my doctor advive.

7:41 am

crosshair

Advice

7:41 am

Sugrraleona

yes, scrabbler, I agree and more research - they came out with the vaccine so fast

7:42 am

Scrabbler

I get the Nuvaxovid vaccine--more effective than the other 2.But improvements are needed.

7:43 am

crosshair

I used to work in an "essential service" positon where I would see hundreds of people per day. All the vaccine shots I got were for me, but also to protect those whose innune systems were compromised.

7:43 am

Sugrraleona

thank you for your service cross

7:43 am

Sugrraleona

i

7:45 am

crosshair

I do not wish to kills someones child who is getting chemo, or someones elderly parents. That is why I still get a covid shot, even though a better one is needed.

7:45 am

mkg

any help for any 7s welcome

7:45 am

Sugrraleona

na7

7:45 am

Sugrraleona

ri7

7:45 am

Sugrraleona

2 x ti7

7:45 am

Sugrraleona

that's all I got

7:47 am

Sugrraleona

wait, there's an ho7 -

7:47 am

phaeton

any one have the so6/24?

7:48 am

ChampFit

I have ae, an, en,ho,na, ti, and ti

7:48 am

ChampFit

Still need one tho

7:48 am

Sugrraleona

not yet champ

7:49 am

crosshair

Ty for ho7

7:49 am

mkg

thanks. any syn. for any of them?

7:49 am

Sugrraleona

na- one who reads a book out loud?

7:49 am

Sugrraleona

ti - my mom's hugs are ti7 than my dad's LOL

7:49 am

varumba

thanks sug

7:49 am

ChampFit

along those lines

7:50 am

Sugrraleona

the other ti 7 - is similar

7:50 am

Sugrraleona

just change the last letter

7:50 am

varumba

tx again sug

7:50 am

crosshair

Ty for ti7

7:50 am

Scrabbler

TY for clues

7:50 am

phaeton

so6/24?

7:51 am

Sugrraleona

no idea what the ho 7 means, found it by accident - I'll look it up, give me a sec

7:51 am

Sugrraleona

ho7 is feeling or expressing horror

7:51 am

ChampFit

I still need that one phae...

7:51 am

phaeton

more words server is down

7:51 am

ChampFit

Oooh...just found it. Looks french.

7:52 am

ChampFit

"well groomed"

7:52 am

Sugrraleona

so6 is someone who imposes on bed and board without paying

7:52 am

ChampFit

That's the 18 sugrraleona

7:53 am

phaeton

ty...didn't realize that's what that word menat

7:53 am

phaeton

+meant

7:53 am

ChampFit

Looked it up. Had no idea

7:54 am

mkg

ty have two 7s now! great clues. ty

7:54 am

crosshair

Ty for so6

7:55 am

phaeton

re6/18...not the one that means to lease something

7:56 am

mkg

any clues for bottom row A words? ty

7:57 am

ChampFit

an4

7:57 am

mkg

ty. looking

7:58 am

mkg

got it.

7:59 am

crosshair

No butts about it. :)

7:59 am

mkg

cute cross.

8:00 am

phaeton

did any one clue the en7?

8:00 am

crosshair

:)

8:00 am

ChampFit

My last 7 was ta. Now to find that dang re

8:03 am

phaeton

got the en7

8:04 am

phaeton

an7?

8:05 am

mattygroves

Can someone clue the en7 for me please?

8:05 am

ChampFit

It's an organic compound. (the an)

8:05 am

ChampFit

Matty...mesmerize

8:05 am

varumba

I thought En7 was spelt with a double L at the end...

8:05 am

phaeton

en7...to enchant

8:06 am

phaeton

or amaze

8:06 am

mattygroves

Ah - thank you - I thought it'd have a double L as well. Cheers

8:07 am

varumba

1L more brit apparently.. 2Ls US

8:07 am

ChampFit

FW!

8:08 am

crosshair

Ty for en7

8:08 am

ChampFit

Phae...the re6 we were looking for means "situated at or toward the back or rear of something." Good luck everyone!

8:09 am

phaeton

ty

8:10 am

phaeton

can't find a organic compound that begins with 'an'

8:14 am

MollyL

It smells like licorice

8:16 am

mkg

anise?????? not in grid. confused

8:16 am

varumba

ty Moly - had to google but found it

8:16 am

phaeton

ty

8:26 am

hurshy

top row grey!

8:26 am

crosshair

Ty for an 7/32

8:27 am

varumba

oh no! Wordfinder list site seems down!

8:27 am

crosshair

Guessed it more than anything else. A new one for me.

8:28 am

varumba

anyone knows of another site to use for word lists?

8:29 am

hurshy

morewords

8:29 am

varumba

ta hursh

8:29 am

crosshair

Varumba, the Merriam-webster word finder is goid

8:29 am

crosshair

Good*

8:29 am

varumba

good to know thanks crossy

8:29 am

varumba

morewords not working either

8:29 am

varumba

let's try crossy's

8:29 am

hurshy

looks like morewords may be down also, says something about a problem in boston

8:29 am

hurshy

i hope there hasn't been some kind of disaster in boston

8:30 am

crosshair

I like it. Is very easy to use

8:30 am

varumba

yeah I'm liking it too!

8:32 am

varumba

bookmarked it - thanks again crossy

8:34 am

hurshy

name that proper noun! 2nd/3rd century church father

8:39 am

BzznBea

Cloudflare outage

8:39 am

hurshy

and what is cloudflare exactly? a server company?

8:40 am

varumba

fireworks

8:40 am

BzznBea

Yes.

8:42 am

hurshy

phantom: anthrax

8:48 am

Kaplan the Magne

Ignacio?

8:49 am

Kaplan the Magne

Ignatio? I have no idea. Not my wheelhouse

8:51 am

Kaplan the Magne

Aretha?

8:51 am

Kaplan the Magne

I'm not really looking. I am tired. My cat is in our bedroom wasting away.

8:52 am

Kaplan the Magne

She's skin and bones but fully cognizant so I will not take her away from her comfort corner to put her down. She will probably die in her sleep.

10:51 am

Book Doctor Gwen

howdee word nerds! diving in

11:11 am

Book Doctor Gwen

phantoms: ornate, general, oregano

11:31 am

Atalante

oh kaplan I feel your pain with that

11:32 am

Atalante

I had the same situation last year

11:32 am

Shirlockc

coming out of lurkdom to commiserate with you kap

11:33 am

Shirlockc

my cat is going in the same direction -- chronic kidney disease and stable for now but i can see the future, sigh

11:41 am

Book Doctor Gwen

so sorry to hear about your kitties

11:51 am

Atalante

ooo there are dwarves in the grid

11:52 am

welki

but no rigatoni

11:53 am

Atalante

or goats

12:04 pm

mael

I'm sorry about your kitties :(

12:04 pm

mael

my old girl is on thyroid medication and her kidneys are stable so far, but it's on the horizon

12:14 pm

hurshy

sympathies to all facing pet loss

12:14 pm

hurshy

the NTPN church father was Origen

12:16 pm

cybernan

hello everyone

12:16 pm

hurshy

hi nan

12:18 pm

hurshy

ugh, i hate when i get a badly flavored carrot

12:18 pm

hurshy

why are some delicious and others icky

12:18 pm

Atalante

I hate it when avocados have more calories than I think they have

12:18 pm

hurshy

isn't that all of them, though? lol

12:19 pm

Atalante

yes

12:19 pm

mael

bitter carrots are terrible

12:19 pm

hurshy

phantom: taiga

12:20 pm

Atalante

NTPN Hurshy, a Hobbit dwarf

12:21 pm

cybernan

avacados have calories? and here I was telling myself that they are on the healthy food list!

12:21 pm

Atalante

exactly, nan!

12:21 pm

hurshy

ori

12:21 pm

mael

a hobbit or a dwarf, atalante?

12:21 pm

EvaNadine

afternoon, babblers!

12:21 pm

Atalante

a dwarf in the Hobbit :)

12:22 pm

mael

oh a dwarf from the Hobbit, got it

12:22 pm

mael

lol

12:23 pm

hurshy

i wish they could pinpoint the bad carrots and like not breed from those seeds

12:23 pm

hurshy

or figure out if it's about the composition of the soil or whatever and fix it that way

12:24 pm

BzznBea

Avocados have good fat and fiber. They are worth the calories

12:24 pm

mael

it's a soil and water thing, hursh

12:25 pm

hurshy

well then every carrot grower needs to pay attention to that

12:25 pm

moolingwa

morning all

12:25 pm

hurshy

what's the bottom row N?

12:25 pm

Atalante

na7

12:25 pm

hurshy

but it's not narthex

12:26 pm

Atalante

no, because thats not in the grid

12:26 pm

hurshy

i know but that's the only word i can think of that's even close to being here

12:27 pm

Atalante

let me tell you the story of Hurshy and the Bad Carrot

12:27 pm

hurshy

oh oh i see it

12:27 pm

hurshy

does the right col O also have 7s? i can only find or5 from there so far

12:28 pm

BzznBea

no

12:29 pm

hurshy

are they weird?

12:29 pm

Atalante

not really but I'm missing one

12:29 pm

hurshy

ooh yes i found a weird or6/24

12:30 pm

hurshy

well then i need your non-weird one perhaps

12:30 pm

hurshy

unless the one i find weird is just not weird to you

12:30 pm

Atalante

the one I have is common enough in babble

12:30 pm

hurshy

does it have the stats i just mentioned?

12:31 pm

Atalante

yes

12:31 pm

Atalante

but there's 2 of them

12:31 pm

hurshy

oh ok

12:32 pm

hurshy

oh it's just one letter off from my NTPN church father

12:33 pm

hurshy

yay

12:33 pm

Atalante

aha ty

12:33 pm

hurshy

i need an H too and it's neither Hoth (SW) nor Horta (ST)

12:34 pm

BzznBea

ho7,32

12:34 pm

hurshy

compound?

12:35 pm

hurshy

i guess probably not

12:36 pm

Atalante

hmmm

12:36 pm

Atalante

not a compound

12:37 pm

hurshy

aHA got it

12:38 pm

hurshy

top two rows grey!

12:38 pm

hurshy

4-4-3-3

12:39 pm

Atalante

2-1-1-4

12:40 pm

hurshy

what's the bottom row A besides the one that would make some babblers crack NSFW jokes?

12:40 pm

Atalante

ae7 but don't have it yet

12:41 pm

Atalante

oh wait no it isn't

12:41 pm

hurshy

i have ae7

12:41 pm

hurshy

one of them anyway, if there are more, idk

12:41 pm

Atalante

ar5/10 I think

12:42 pm

hurshy

aha thanks got it

12:42 pm

hurshy

bottom row grey!

12:42 pm

Atalante

clue for the ae7?

12:42 pm

hurshy

the device that puts the bubbles in the water in a fish tank

12:42 pm

Atalante

ohhh ty

12:43 pm

hurshy

11 left, ttfn

12:49 pm

cybernan

haven't been able to find that an 7 organic compound anywhere - help please

12:52 pm

Atalante

if I could, I would!

12:58 pm

Atalante

ah ok. its sort of like the stuff used to put you to sleep for surgery

1:01 pm

cybernan

anathor, anathol and anathox don't work

1:01 pm

Atalante

change one letter from the middle one

1:01 pm

cybernan

got it - ty

1:03 pm

cybernan

between the discipline specific and misspelled words, we have another doozie here

1:09 pm

Atalante

clue for the en?

1:10 pm

cybernan

to mesmerize - no double letter at the end

1:14 pm

Atalante

ty!

1:14 pm

cybernan

was just about to give a different clue!

1:15 pm

cybernan

as I said - misspelled words

1:15 pm

Atalante

firebirds!

1:16 pm

cybernan

grats atalante - 27 here and heading to the list - still missing one 7

1:37 pm

cybernan

Done :)

1:55 pm

Atalante

yay nan!

2:40 pm

crosshair

En 7/32 is not a misspelling--it is a proper U.K/ Canada spelling of the word. :)

3:07 pm

moolingwa

rehi

4:13 pm

hurshy

*has to look for en7*

4:14 pm

hurshy

got it! thanks crossy

4:15 pm

hurshy

and ty atalante for an7!

4:15 pm

hurshy

4-2-2-1

4:32 pm

hurshy

3rd row grey!

4:41 pm

hurshy

phantom: tangent

4:42 pm

hurshy

le fin

5:31 pm

MollyL

le freak c'est chic

5:59 pm

hokie carla

freak out!

6:01 pm

hokie carla

here for my last 119

6:12 pm

hokie carla

phantom rigatoni

6:23 pm

72 Temple Owl

had en7 been clued?

6:24 pm

72 Temple Owl

ah, found it.

6:24 pm

hokie carla

TO!

6:25 pm

72 Temple Owl

carla!

6:26 pm

MollyL

Everyone!!!!!!!

6:28 pm

MollyL

en7 is a dumb spelling of a word that means mesmerize

6:28 pm

BzznBea

Hokie, Jeopardy clue tonightwas about the Hokies.

6:29 pm

72 Temple Owl

ty

6:30 pm

hokie carla

cool

6:31 pm

72 Temple Owl

todd snider died. a hard life and a hard, early death.

6:34 pm

72 Temple Owl

time to finish up and get ready for the american revolution. later

6:34 pm

hokie carla

had to google him. sounds like a weird story. he was assaulted and then arrested for not leaving the hospital in UT? and then died in TN from pneumonia?

6:35 pm

hokie carla

do you remember the clue, bea?

6:35 pm

72 Temple Owl

yes. what a storyteller, prose and song. alt country

6:37 pm

hokie carla

oh, read the clue and heard it was a triple stumper. what morons!

6:38 pm

72 Temple Owl

night, all

6:40 pm

hokie carla

good night, TO

7:04 pm

penquis

an 7 anyone?

7:04 pm

hokie carla

pen!

7:05 pm

hokie carla

do you know which A?

7:05 pm

penquis

first column

7:06 pm

hokie carla

hmm

7:08 pm

penquis

comes before madness...

7:08 pm

hokie carla

how many points?

7:08 pm

penquis

32

7:09 pm

hokie carla

well, I had already tried anearth and it's not that

7:12 pm

penquis

i looked it up....ends with the ending of flavored cigarent men****....

7:12 pm

hokie carla

thanks, probably would have never found that

7:12 pm

penquis

best word list...

7:13 pm

penquis

well i am done...

7:13 pm

hokie carla

congrats

7:13 pm

hokie carla

still 32 left herre

7:13 pm

hokie carla

here

7:13 pm

penquis

ty....

7:13 pm

penquis

need anything before i go?

7:13 pm

hokie carla

I don't know what I need, but thanks

7:14 pm

penquis

yw...have a good night....

7:14 pm

hokie carla

thanks, you too

7:15 pm

penquis

ty...bye..

8:03 pm

hokie carla

anyone still here and knows the 2nd re6? can't even find it on bestword

8:08 pm

dan2bit

like the first one, except the middle consonants. one moved, one different

8:09 pm

hokie carla

got it, thanks

8:16 pm

dan2bit

clue for the first or6?

8:16 pm

hokie carla

ends in what you do with food

10:17 pm

rururocks

Orswalloq

10:17 pm

rururocks

Orswallow

10:18 pm

rururocks

Damn it

10:18 pm

rururocks

Ordigest

10:18 pm

rururocks

Damn it

10:31 pm

gremlinn

orchoke

10:32 pm

lshult

surely thats or5

10:38 pm

MollyL

Ru, I thought you would know orcook

10:39 pm

gremlinn

brb, have to go nag my dinner

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