I’m way out of practice..this one took me a while.
As I’ve been doing these I seem to have developed a frequent word vocabulary list and I recognize patterns like the ones for ever, never, there, people, books, love, everything etc. So rather than running over all the words my mind matches against a sub-list first. That speeds things up a lot because once you have a couple words there are enough partial words that the dominoes start falling. When I started I thought I’d never solve any of these in a respectable time. There are still some that I just don’t catch hold of, but fewer.
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