Jon Lasser is Hanging in thereWords that #SpellTower wouldn’t let me use today include “geolocates” and “duppies.”
That and the awful streak tracking rules for four-star puzzles really gets me today.
jonsinger@disappearinjon probably only distantly related, but your first point is why i play the Sunday version of Spelling Bee (if you find it in the dictionary, you get to count it) and decline to play the daily version (which has a list of allowable words).