Babble: Archived Puzzle for Sunday, March 8, 2026

12:01 am

MetFan

Howdy all

12:01 am

Rainiqui

Hi everyone

12:03 am

ursh

hello all

12:03 am

Robespierre

Howdy!

12:08 am

dofith

G'day

12:10 am

cybernan

hi everyone :)

12:18 am

Gillie

an7

12:18 am

Gillie

al8

12:18 am

Gillie

(a strange one)

12:18 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:22 am

MetFan

TY Lickety

12:24 am

cybernan

too tired - not seeing anything, good night.

5:40 am

FrenchToast

GM all! Phantom rancid

9:13 am

crosshair

Good morning, Babblers. :)

9:14 am

crosshair

Monkeys are in overdrive yoday. Found the al 8/50. Is a new one for me.

9:35 am

phaeton

can you clue it?

9:36 am

penquis

do you have the al 5/14?....it builds from there...

9:36 am

phaeton

I have no a's

9:37 am

penquis

al + start of a large town + to eat....

9:37 am

phaeton

ty

9:37 am

penquis

yw....don't forget the 5...

9:38 am

penquis

only reason i found it is because if you add an E to the end, it is an old French name for a man....

9:38 am

phaeton

got it

9:39 am

penquis

couldn't help trying it out... ;o)

9:49 am

penquis

well i am stalled at 19...time for a break....bye all....

9:54 am

hurshy

h'lo

9:56 am

hurshy

name that acronym! concept from Vulcan philosophy (bonus dings if you say what it stands for)

10:26 am

crosshair

I.D.I.C infinate diversity-infinate combinations.

10:26 am

hurshy

ding ding ding!!!
ding ding ding ding!!!!

10:26 am

crosshair

:)

10:26 am

crosshair

Live long and prosper, Hurshy. :)

10:27 am

hurshy

live long and prosper

10:27 am

hurshy

i always used to make my mom put that on my birthday cake instead of happy birthday

10:28 am

crosshair

Now that is the sign of a real trekkie.

10:28 am

hurshy

:)

10:31 am

hurshy

wow there's hardly been any chat today

10:31 am

crosshair

When I ran a bar many years ago, we were all allowed to invent a shooter for the bar menu. What I did was keep a glass jar behind the bar half full of vodka. Every time I emptied a bottle of tequlua, I would save back the agave worm in this jar. Once I had enough f

10:32 am

crosshair

... I would blend them up into a shooter. It was called The Vulcan.

10:33 am

hurshy

because... it was so strong it would pinch a nerve?

10:33 am

crosshair

Could only make a few a month, so we would draw straws for it.

10:34 am

crosshair

Kill you nerves more like it.

10:34 am

hurshy

certainly not because it was logical

10:35 am

crosshair

Should have really been a Kingon shot

10:35 am

crosshair

Klingon

10:35 am

hurshy

or um

10:35 am

hurshy

Trill

10:35 am

hurshy

cause of the worm

10:35 am

crosshair

Lol

10:36 am

crosshair

Or name it after the sandworms in Dune.

10:36 am

hurshy

did they have a name? can't remember it

10:37 am

crosshair

Not sure, could just call it Atradies (sp)

10:38 am

crosshair

I used to live and breathe SF and fantasy books in my youth, but it has been many years now, and my reading tastes are very fluid.

10:39 am

crosshair

So I cannot remember is the sandwirms had a name.

10:39 am

hurshy

well the drug produced by the larvae was melange so

10:39 am

hurshy

that would also work

10:40 am

hurshy

this is a very odd little grid

10:40 am

hurshy

2-0-4-2

10:41 am

hurshy

right col & bottom row grey!

10:41 am

crosshair

Recently, for example. I looked up every banned book in each U.S state and downloaded them all on to my E-reader. Implan to spend this year going through all of them

10:41 am

hurshy

oh jeepers, how many were there

10:41 am

crosshair

I is an odd grid. :(

10:49 am

hurshy

2-0-1-2

11:02 am

crosshair

I think I loaded up fifty or so before I stopped.

11:05 am

crosshair

I figurd if the Trump administration or the school boards are trying bury them, it is required reading.

11:07 am

LuvWordGames

Yes apparently Trump didn't read the book about removing his damn baseball cap for the dignified transfer of fallen soldiers :-(((

11:08 am

crosshair

Well I seem to remember him calling U.S p.O.W's losers, so this does not surprise me.

11:10 am

ch1212

crossy ... ran across this: This recipe calls for "leftover bacon" ... and it might as well require dragon loin or unicorn shanks

11:12 am

crosshair

Lol. No s hing as "leftover" bacon. At keat I have never seen such a thing. :)

11:12 am

crosshair

Such thing*

11:13 am

crosshair

Least*

11:13 am

ch1212

I understood you just fine! lol

11:13 am

crosshair

:)

11:16 am

crosshair

Here, they do not even sell it as a full pound anymore. They are 375 grams. 454 grams is a pound. I can barely get two bacon sammiches out of a package!! :(

11:17 am

periwinkle

hello all. help with 7s please

11:17 am

crosshair

Howdy, peri

11:17 am

crosshair

Sadly, I still need all of them.

11:19 am

crosshair

I think one of them is An7

11:23 am

crosshair

Taking a break. The Babble blindness is strong today.

11:26 am

hokie carla

woot! remembered the weird Y

11:28 am

hokie carla

blind on the c's though

11:33 am

hokie carla

so something can be le6 but not le8

11:41 am

hokie carla

was definitely blind on the C, forgot to try one second letter

11:41 am

hokie carla

HOET and 18 left

11:52 am

moolingwa

NOET and 87 left

11:53 am

hurshy

so um an7 is a sea creature

11:54 am

hurshy

mi7 is like, if you depend on the wrong thing, you mi7 on it

11:54 am

hurshy

which seems like a pretty stupid word to me but whatever

11:54 am

hurshy

and i'm currently looking for di7

11:58 am

LuvWordGames

Add most of a man's name to when you have a meal

11:58 am

hurshy

ty

11:58 am

hurshy

and thought of my last N, and am done!

11:59 am

mkg

i have di 6 which is the evening meal. but dont see the seven. confused.

12:00 pm

LuvWordGames

It's before that use the verb

12:01 pm

hokie carla

clueapalooza. rehi.

12:01 pm

mkg

the verb is a di 4 right? to di**

12:01 pm

moolingwa

hey hoke :)

12:01 pm

LuvWordGames

Yes

12:01 pm

hokie carla

moooo

12:01 pm

moolingwa

happy Sunday

12:02 pm

mkg

i got it but is that areally a word? hard to believe. ty.

12:02 pm

mkg

any help with the 8 welcome as well. ty

12:03 pm

hurshy

builds on al5/14, ending is that same di verb

12:03 pm

moolingwa

which unfortunately is probably not very helpful

12:04 pm

hokie carla

oh, thanks for that 8

12:04 pm

moolingwa

well, apparently it was

12:05 pm

hokie carla

still trying to figure out a man's name for that 7

12:06 pm

moolingwa

first row greyed

12:07 pm

hokie carla

still need 2 i

12:07 pm

moolingwa

can't see?

12:07 pm

hokie carla

innie still not a word

12:08 pm

hurshy

alt clue for di7= loud chaotic noiseness + actor Stoltz

12:08 pm

hokie carla

got it, thanks

12:09 pm

hokie carla

4-3-6

12:09 pm

hokie carla

found an i6

12:11 pm

moolingwa

i c

12:11 pm

moolingwa

5-2-3-2

12:12 pm

hokie carla

found my F"s. have to call bs on one

12:12 pm

hokie carla

found another i6

12:12 pm

hokie carla

3-2-4

12:16 pm

hokie carla

it's drizly here today

12:16 pm

hokie carla

can't find my 4s

12:52 pm

Atalante

its gorgeous here, blue skies, 30 C

1:03 pm

hokie carla

funny, we have scottish weather, but a tad warmer

1:17 pm

parisla

30 Celsius in Scotland??? Even in Florida it's not that warm today!

1:26 pm

hokie carla

now I gotta look that up

1:26 pm

hokie carla

oh yeah, that is hot

1:27 pm

hokie carla

66F here. we had a big thunderstorm last night that cooled it off some, and super cloudy today.

1:27 pm

hokie carla

but had been high 70s-low 80s prior 2 days

1:50 pm

crosshair

A sunny, balmy 8C here today. :)

1:54 pm

hokie carla

okay, that sounds like it's probably colder

1:54 pm

crosshair

I have the an7, the di7, which one am I missing?

1:55 pm

crosshair

46.4 american, hokie.

1:59 pm

marksdolly

mi7

1:59 pm

crosshair

Ty. :)

1:59 pm

marksdolly

:)

2:01 pm

crosshair

Gas prices set to hit 1.50/ litre ( $6.16 on our old gallon) here in town today. Thanks Donald. :(

2:05 pm

crosshair

Cannot see that mi7 for the life of me.

2:06 pm

hokie carla

because it's dumb

2:07 pm

hokie carla

if you want someone to do something for you and they don't , you did mi7 on them

2:07 pm

crosshair

Tried every letter combinaion that makes sense. It must be a doozy.

2:08 pm

crosshair

Found it, and I call B.S on that "eord."

2:08 pm

crosshair

Word

2:09 pm

hokie carla

that word is fl5

2:09 pm

crosshair

Ty, hokie

2:10 pm

crosshair

Now i ned that fl5

2:10 pm

hokie carla

it is dumb unless it means something I don't think it means

2:11 pm

crosshair

Is it me, or is Enable really digging out some nonsense babblets lately?

2:13 pm

hokie carla

enable is doing nothing lately, it hasn't been updated since the early 2000s. just showing up in these grids I reckon.

2:13 pm

crosshair

Found that fl5 and it is ver odd as well.

2:14 pm

crosshair

I mean try and use half these words on a scrabble biard and you will get called on it.

2:14 pm

crosshair

Board

2:46 pm

caps

Anemone

3:27 pm

crosshair

That's the one. :)

4:22 pm

moolingwa

rehi

5:45 pm

Atalante

I'm in Jamaica :P

5:50 pm

Minveryork

Hi Atalante! How RU doing in Jamaica. Never been there.

5:50 pm

Atalante

hey :) just finishing 3 weeks of work out here!

5:51 pm

Atalante

inner

5:52 pm

Atalante

oops!

5:53 pm

Minveryork

Nice one Atalante! Can you do an oops on that ir 6 word?

5:53 pm

Atalante

I can give you a clue :)

5:54 pm

Minveryork

Yes please and thank you!

5:54 pm

Atalante

now I have to think

5:55 pm

Atalante

i + a word that sounds like it should be to do with kidneys. or a word that is v similar to a old lady

5:55 pm

Atalante

s name

5:55 pm

Atalante

or anger + starting three letters of a girls name

6:00 pm

Minveryork

OMG, it took me long enough. Thank U for clue Atalante.

6:03 pm

Atalante

:D

6:03 pm

Minveryork

I's Isolated! 8 left

6:07 pm

Minveryork

Three phantoms I keep on seeing: circle, irony, misnomer

6:12 pm

Atalante

I keep seeing falcon

6:25 pm

rururocks

circle is misnomer ironically minver

6:29 pm

Minveryork

Hello rururocks! How are you doing?Nice to see you here.

6:34 pm

rururocks

hi minver.. i'm ok.. nice to see you too.

7:50 pm

hokie carla

ha, no wonder it's so hot, ATA. :D

7:50 pm

hokie carla

rehi, all

7:50 pm

hokie carla

still 8 left

8:15 pm

Minveryork

Hello hokie carla!How are you doing?Welcome to the grid

8:17 pm

hokie carla

hey min, I'm good, how are you?

8:18 pm

hokie carla

ooh, found a word

8:18 pm

hokie carla

a very normal word, I don't know why it held out so long

8:31 pm

hokie carla

found another word

8:31 pm

hokie carla

at this rate I might finish

8:36 pm

hokie carla

well, listed for last 6 but going to have to look up the very last one.

8:37 pm

hokie carla

never seen that before

9:25 pm

Minveryork

A's Attoned! 7 left

9:26 pm

Minveryork

D's Dusted! 6 left

9:29 pm

Minveryork

M's Mummified! 4 left

10:08 pm

harpjane

this is miserable

10:09 pm

cybernan

hello if anyone is still here

10:09 pm

cherlyq

hey Nan just lurking

10:10 pm

harpjane

i still have 39 to go

10:14 pm

cybernan

after reading the chat I will come back in an hour in hopes the the next one will have more recognizable words

10:29 pm

cherlyq

got the 8

10:30 pm

cherlyq

8 left this one is hard has a few less common words

10:30 pm

moolingwa

hidey hodey

10:37 pm

mkg

any clues for that 8 please? i cant see it. ty.

10:37 pm

mkg

and what is the state? ty

10:38 pm

moolingwa

yeah, it's not a normal word

10:38 pm

moolingwa

ends in "to eat"

10:38 pm

mkg

stat i mean.

10:38 pm

moolingwa

al8/50

10:39 pm

cherlyq

8-50

10:39 pm

moolingwa

I have 3 left, 2 6s and a 7

10:39 pm

mkg

got it. ouch. never heard it before. but ty for clues.

10:44 pm

cherlyq

4 left

10:50 pm

cherlyq

Fireworks

10:52 pm

harpjane

just finished "sinners" so now I can concentrate on the grid

11:12 pm

harpjane

6 to go

11:19 pm

harpjane

no6 clue?if anyone is here

11:28 pm

harpjane

one!

11:29 pm

harpjane

I mean, DONE!

11:36 pm

Minveryork

O's Ousted! 3 left

11:38 pm

Minveryork

Can I please have a clue for si 6/21 and si 6/27? Thank U!

11:42 pm

Minveryork

N's Nicked! 2 left

11:44 pm

Minveryork

I just found an si6/21 word. Now I just need si 6/27 word

11:44 pm

lshult

si6/21= short for Mr Cowel(AGT Judge)+ short for famous elephant

11:44 pm

lshult

sorry difficult to clue

11:45 pm

Minveryork

Thanks Ishult, I just found it. Do you have an si6/27 word

11:45 pm

lshult

looking now

11:48 pm

Lorrie_in_SA

si6/27 si + shortened cash word

11:48 pm

lshult

si6/27= the same Mr Cowel + sometime vowel

11:48 pm

Minveryork

I just found it by typing any old words rapidly. Fireworks!

11:49 pm

Minveryork

Good thing my monkeys R smarter than I am! They got it.

11:50 pm

Minveryork

I have not been here since November so nice to return to get fireworks. Might as well stay 10 more minutes 'til flip

11:51 pm

Minveryork

Does anybody need last minutes clues before the big flip?

11:51 pm

lshult

any of the 7's?

11:52 pm

Minveryork

an7/32 word is an plus vowel plus most of bills and coins.

11:53 pm

Minveryork

A di 7/36 word is to eat plus singer ***k Springfield Ishult.

11:53 pm

Minveryork

mi7/40 word is to mistakenly depend on somebody Ishult

11:54 pm

lshult

thanks, good clues

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