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Puzzle ZSLY 



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Below you will find 9 well-known five-letter words, with only their endings remaining.

Once you have found the words, their initial letters are an anagram of a 9-letter word.

What is the word?
--xic --ien --nre --ppo --pil --loo --day --uip --elf

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Answer
Spaghetti.
--xic = toxic --ien = alien --nre = genre --ppo = hippo --pil = pupil --loo = igloo --day = today --uip = equip --elf = shelf
Giving the letters TAGHPITES, which is an anagram of SPAGHETTI.

 

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