Thursday, July 27, 2017

no computers - Some-what-not-with-standing word connections


What words can fill the boxes?   Each pair of linked words forms an uncapitalized unhyphenated word when joined end-to-start according to their left-to-right or top-to-bottom order in the link.   Some boxes indicate the lengths of their mystery words.



_____ For example
friend---|_____|---shape ------------- friend---SHIP---shape
| \_____ | \
| |__4__| Linked words: | YARD
__|__ \ | \
|__5__|---age friendship shipyard WRECK---age

shipshape wreckage
shipwreck yardage


For real
the ----------
__|__
he---|_____| chic
__|__ __|__
super |__4__| handle |_____|

__|__ __|__ _____ _____ __|__ __|__
for---|_____|---|__4__|---|__2__|---|_____|---|_____|---|__4__|
| \ |
| \_____ | put
| |_____| __|__ __|__
__|__ \ |_____|---|_____|
con---|_____|---ally __|__
rep---|_____|
__|__
stall---|_____|



This puzzle follows the lead of Word connections and Word connection squares!.



Answer





the
__|__
he---|_re__| chic
__|__ __|__

super |name_| handle |_hi__|
__|__ __|__ _____ _____ __|__ __|__
for---|_ego_|---|less_|---|_on__|---|side_|---|_bar_|---|ring_|
| \ |
| \_____ | put
| |maniac __|__ __|__
__|__ \ |_real|---|ties_|
con---|centric--ally __|__
rep---|_lot_|
__|

stall---|_ion_|

Notes:



I got LOT from Mike Q's answer. (There are other commonalities but they were independent discoveries.) NAME could also be FORM, as in BaSzAt's answer, in which case we could also replace RE with REIN as in his answer. RING could also be KING. CENTRIC and CENTRICALLY are slightly obscure. CHICHI, too. I originally had TIE instead of TIES, which yielded two (valid but) terribly obscure words, but Khale_Kitha pointed out in chat that pluralizing fixes everything.



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