| 46 | aiwain | also
acceptable:
ajwain |
A pungent seedlike fruit used to flavor bread and prevent flatulence. |
| 47 | quem quaeretis | 2 words. Latin for "Whom do you seek?" | A phrase from a 10-century Easter hymn repeated by priests enacting the account of the visit by the women to Christ's tomb. |
| 48 | shanachie | A teller of legends. | |
| 49 | ajimez | from Spanish, via Arabic | Twin window inspired by Arab architecture. |
| 50 | sosie | from the name of a slave in Amphitryon, a play by Molière, whose form is assumed by Mercury. Molière's Sosie is himself, in more ways than one, a sosie of the identical character in the corresponding play, itself a kind of sosie, by Plautus | Identical twin. Or someone with an exact double. |
Score yourself.
But do not excoriate yourself: this is the impossible round.
Larry English, who won the bee, prevailed with 34 correctly spelled words.
John Peek placed second, with 31.
Fred Roberts took third with 28 correctly spelled words.
Larry Woodring got 27 right. Eric Forgoston got 25 right.