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Puzzle #1521 · 2025-08-18
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Puzzle #1521 · 2025-08-18
Today's answer is most often used as a noun. It contains 3 vowels and 2 consonants, and it repeats at least one letter. Its Scrabble score is 5.
Definition & origin
ISSUE — The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly:
Today’s puzzle includes a double letter, which often trips players up and makes it harder to cover all possibilities in just a few guesses.
Starter words that lined up well today
Strong opening words for this puzzle included SLATE (covers the letters s, e), SOARE (covers the letters s, e) and AUDIO (covers the letters u, i). If you opened with one of these, you were already probing several of the key letters in the answer.