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Mix & Match *

by Max & Mitch Ninelette

The goal of this Mix & Match puzzle is to reconstitute a set of nine 9-letter words that have each had two trigrams removed. Below are two separate puzzles. Each includes a table to fill out and a set of trigrams with which to fill it up. Using each trigram once, fill the blanks in the table to form various nine-letter words. When you are done, three additional words will be revealed in the vertical direction for each puzzle.

CHA______
MOM______
DIS______
IDI______
PHO______
PAR______
TEX______
SCR______
HAI______
ALAARY
ENTGED
LIANAT
OGYOMA
ORYOUN
RACRST
SOLTER
TICTOL
UTEYLE
 
___RIN___
___NED___
___STE___
___IAT___
___NET___
___PMA___
___RAT___
___STI___
___RIN___
CKYDAR
EPIEST
EXTHEL
INTION
IVEMIC
NONOBV
OIDOPE
PLASIC
SICTES

If you think you’ve figured out all the answersthat’s 24 nine-letter words!submit your solution to the editors of SpecGram by October 15, 2015, and you could win a prize.* Solutions and winners will be announced in the November issue.



The answers to September’s Trickle Down Linguonomics puzzle are: pun, noun, phone, token, trochee, cognate, homomorph, rhotacism, orthography, subjunctive, evidentiality, frequentative. Each of the following puzzlemeisters will receive some highly-coveted SpecGram merch:

Johan EllingsenOlivia DohertyXinxin Chang



* Note that SpecGram Anti-Hoarding Guidelines stipulate that puzzle-related prizes cannot be won by anyone who has won a puzzle-related prize in the last three monthsthough honor, fame, and glory may still be seized on the metaphorical field of puzzle-related battle.

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