A #rebus is a #wordplay #puzzle combining images and letters to represent a word or phrase.

Words are represented by combinations of pictures and letters; for instance, "apex" might be represented by a picture of an ape followed by a letter X.

Moving left to right "say" the images in English and mix in the letters to complete the answer.

Avoid the Alt Text (spoilers)

Embroidery #Wordplay is a #SundaySillies #wordsearch #puzzle with one answer. Start with one of the letters with a gray background and move to the next letter, but only horizontal or vertical from where you start. No diagonals - each square just once.

Use DM or CW for answers to let everyone enjoy the search!

Starting with one of the letters in a
gray square, find the longest word.
Next letter horizontal or vertical from
the first. No diagonals.
No square may be used again.
Minimum 7 letters

#SundaySillies
Wicked Wonderful Wordies - #wordplay #wordies #idiom

Happy weekend from here, #puzzle fans!

Idioms or common phrases (American/English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words in or around the puzzle frame.

Can you figure out this week's wordie? It would be wicked wonderful if you can.

Please use CW to submit your answers, thanks. Give everybody the chance to guess.

Hint: coping

Created with the Free Software SVG editor #Inkscape

I was wondering how accomplish and accomplice are related, and it turns out, etymologically, they aren’t.

accomplish comes to us, via Old French, from Latin ad (=to) and complēre (=to fill up).

accomplice was originally complice, which is from the Latin complex, using the suffix -icis (=joined). Complex is made up of the prefix com- (=together), and plicāre (=to fold), which also gives us words like complicate, replicate and, incidentally, plait.

The prefix ac- in accomplice is described at etymonline as unetymological* which is a bit judgy; they suggest it’s either modelled on accomplish or it was assimilation of the article: ‘a complice’ became ‘accomplice’.

* amusingly, not a word in my dictionary

#wordplay

Braised brains
The gourmet's a ghast
Zombie delight

#PoetryOnTheFly #MastoPrompt #zombies #undead #wordplay #nmpoetry

Paying more attention to things from the early 19th century: Regency bias.

#Wordplay #DadJokes

EMBROILERY is a one-word wordsearch puzzle.

There is just one "longest" word.
Shorter, included words are possible, but not the answer.

It is intended as a harder challenge than the similar "Embroidery" puzzle.

#Wordplay
#Puzzle