Slimeantics #48
Daily puzzle · Monday, November 9, 2026
These are the seven clues from Slimeantics #48, the daily word game for Monday, November 9, 2026. Each slime reads a definition, and you guess the word it describes, from the easiest level to the hardest. You can play this puzzle now, or tap any clue to see its answer, the other words the game accepted, and the word in a sentence.
noun · 4 letters: A large body of fresh water surrounded by land.
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LAKE
Also accepted: LOCH, MERE
Close, for fewer points: RESERVOIR, LAGOON, POOL
- POND: A pond is a small, shallow body of still water.
In a sentence:
- Ducks paddled across the wide, calm lake ringed by hills while we ate sandwiches on the shore.
- We swam far from shore in the cool, deep lake on a hot summer afternoon.
noun · 7 letters: A wild horse of the American West.
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MUSTANG
Also accepted: BRONCO, BRUMBY
Close, for fewer points: PONY, STALLION, MARE
- NAG: NAG is informal or slangy for this meaning.
In a sentence:
- A wild mustang galloped across the open plains with its mane flying.
- The cowboy admired the mustang that roamed free in the American West.
noun · 9 letters: The very beginning of something.
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INCEPTION
Also accepted: ORIGIN, START, OUTSET, DAWN, BIRTH, ORIGINATION
Close, for fewer points:
- LAUNCH: Launch is starting something new on purpose.
In a sentence:
- From its inception in 1990, the club has grown to a hundred members.
- Two friends sketched the first plan on a napkin, and that scribble was the inception of the whole company.
adjective · 6 letters: Describing an animal with hard, horn-covered feet, like a horse.
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HOOVED
Also accepted: HOOFED, UNGULATE
Close, for fewer points: CLOVEN
In a sentence:
- A hooved animal like a horse or deer has hard, horn-covered feet.
- The hooved creature trotted across the field, its feet clacking on stones.
noun · 8 letters: A square scarf worn over the hair or around the neck.
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KERCHIEF
Also accepted: HEADSCARF, BABUSHKA, BANDANA
Close, for fewer points: SHAWL, CRAVAT, HANDKERCHIEF
In a sentence:
- Grandma tied a flowered kerchief over her hair before working in the garden.
- The cowboy wore a red kerchief around his neck to keep off the dust.
noun · 11 letters: A round steel chamber lowered by cable to explore the deep ocean.
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BATHYSPHERE
Close, for fewer points: SUBMARINE, BATHYSCAPHE
- SUBMERSIBLE: A submersible can move under its own power, unlike this cable-lowered diving sphere.
In a sentence:
- The scientists were lowered in a bathysphere, a round steel chamber, to see strange deep-sea fish.
- A cable held the bathysphere as it sank into the dark ocean.
noun · 6 letters: The soft, low sound a horse makes.
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NICKER
Also accepted: WHICKER
Close, for fewer points:
- NEIGH: A neigh is a horse's loud call.
- WHINNY: A whinny is a gentle, high-pitched neigh.
In a sentence:
- We heard the horse's soft nicker as it greeted us at the gate.
- With a gentle nicker, the pony asked for an apple.