A L E R T L O C A L
... [long, puzzled think]
...
... S C A L D
Reading this page, I'm realising now that I never thought of either SCALP or SCALY at any point during that lengthy ponder, for which I can only be grateful.
Perils of doing this when only half awake. At least I got it.
GROVE
MANIC CHALK - of course, it can only be SCALY - oh yes, there is another one isn't there SCALP - well, bugger me, there's more? Hopefully only one as I'm out of guesses SCALD - phew indeed.
The first word that popped into my head after that first turn was, amazingly, SCORN – but I batted away the idea at first as it didn't seem very likely. Perhaps it was subconsciously because we only just had a SC___ word yesterday. Even when I did play it a turn later I was fully prepared to find that the answer was actually SWORN.
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