Answer shape
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Words by first letter
A1
D3
E1
F7
K15
L5
N2
Words by length
413
510
65
75
81
Two-letter starts
AN1
DA1
DE2
EK1
FA2
FL5
KA1
KE6
KN8
LA2
LE3
NA2
Pangram ladder
Open one clue at a time.
Pangram 1
Length
7 letters · 14 points
First and last letters
F … D
Letter pattern
F•••••D
No repeated letters
Reveal Pangram — spoiler
flanked
Complete answer list
Reveal full answers — spoiler
A 1
- ankle
D 3
- dank
- deke
- deked
E 1
- eked
F 7
- fake
- faked
- flak
- flake
- flaked
- flank
- flankedPangram
K 15
- kale
- keel
- keeled
- keen
- keened
- kennel
- kenneled
- knead
- kneaded
- knee
- kneed
- kneel
- kneeled
- knell
- knelled
L 5
- lake
- lank
- leak
- leaked
- leek
N 2
- naked
- nankeen
How hard was this puzzle?
This puzzle's structural difficulty is Hard at 68/100, compared with 93 available puzzles through this date.
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