Saturday, July 18, 2026·

Vol. I · No. 24 · The Weekly Issue · From Key West to the Panhandle

The Floridian

Reporting, fiction, criticism, poetry, and cartoons — from the peninsula

Puzzles & Games · Spelling Nib

The Weekly Word Puzzle

Seven letters, one required. Find every word you can before the storm rolls in.

This week's Nib is a seven-letter arrangement with the required letter in the center. There are, by our count, one hundred and eleven valid words, of which four are pangrams. The pangrams include one Floridian place name that we have, after some debate, decided to allow.

As always: words must be at least four letters, must include the center letter, and must appear in our dictionary. Plurals and simple conjugations are fair game. Proper nouns, mostly, are not — with the aforementioned exception, which regular solvers will spot immediately.


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The Letters Beyond the Bay

Staring at a circle of seven yellow honeycombs on a screen in Pensacola, a retired lawyer finds the limits of regional slang.

Today's Puzzle

The Saturday Crossword

Edited by the games desk. Average solve time: 22 minutes, one iced coffee.

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