Indeed, finding the words is the hardest part. I even have a few
bizarre/obscure dictionaries, and even those aren't enough to avoid DQs
from this crowd.

On Sunday, September 8, 2019 at 6:02:04 PM UTC-7, Efrem wrote:
>
> For what it's worth, I find most of mine in the London Times cryptic
> crossword puzzles - including "asyntedon." Its clue was "Reduction in
> sentence? Yes, and no criminal gets time inside."
>
> I own an unabridged dictionary, thanks to an editor for whom I did a few
> favors some decades back, but I don't remember the last time I opened it.
> When I need to look up a word. Google is usually closer at hand.)
>
> Efrem
>
> > On Sep 8, 2019, at 8:29 PM, Tony Abell <he... (AT) isanybodyhome (DOT) com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
> >
> >
> > My apologies to Debbie for my tactical vote. Were I playing for points,
> I
> > would have voted for #8, which was indeed the real definition. But I was
> not
> > playing for points; I was playing to avoid the deal.
> >
> > I had no words in store to play, and unlike everyone else, apparently, I
> find
> > the process of researching suitable words to be time-consuming and
> > frustrating. I actually don't mind the mechanics of dealing, but finding
> good
> > words to play is murder. I really, really don't have hours to spend
> poring
> > over unabridged dictionaries. There was a time when I would read
> dictionaries
> > for fun, but moiling for words that combine the characteristics of
> obscurity,
> > having not been played before, having hard-to-guess definitions and
> > (preferably) not being known by John Barrs is more work than fun.
> >
> >
> >> 15. a morpheme in morphology and syntax that has syntactic
> characteristics
> >> of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase. In
> this
> >> sense, it is syntactically independent but phonologically dependent,
> always
> >> attached to a host. From Embler, D. who voted 2, 11. Voted for by:
> Shefler,
> >> M.; Carson, C.; Madnick, J.; Abell, T.; Lodge, T.; Widdis, D. Score:
> 6.
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