Puzzles

Beehive

By Robin Hayden

Create words using letters from the beehive. Each word must be more than three letters long and use the center letter at least once. Score one point for each word and three points for each pangram (any word that uses all seven letters). Letters may be used more than once in a word. Our solution list (worth 41 points) doesn’t include proper nouns, obscure or hyphenated words, medical terms, or obscenities.

This puzzle is inspired by “Spelling Bee,” published in the New York Times.

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Find the listed words in the puzzle. Words appear across, up-and-down, and diagonally. Solution online.

• Wellerman
• lowlands
• wind
• cape
• Bully Boy
• Greenland
• cockles
• crew
• passage
• Jack Tar
• fishery
• mussels
• haul
• capstan
• Franklin
• Black Ball Line
• barnacle
• coast
• ashore
• Valparaiso
• whale
• sea
• bowline
• horn
• halyard