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Phoodle Classic hints for · #257

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Food clue

Think of a sauce with a strongly flavoured base ingredient.

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Supporting source 1 · Wiktionary contributors, “aioli”, linked revision · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original concise paraphrase of contributor-written definitions or factual prose. Puzzle connections and clue wording are independently authored. Adapted text is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. No third-party quotations, photographs, audio or publisher hint prose are reused.

Stronger clue

Garlic and olive oil are the central pairing; some versions also use egg.

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Supporting source 1 · Wiktionary contributors, “aioli”, linked revision · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original concise paraphrase of contributor-written definitions or factual prose. Puzzle connections and clue wording are independently authored. Adapted text is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. No third-party quotations, photographs, audio or publisher hint prose are reused.

Why this answer fits

AIOLI is a garlic-and-olive-oil sauce. Egg appears in some versions, so a clue that required mayonnaise or egg in every recipe would be too narrow. The sauce sense gives the answer its direct food connection.

Supporting source 1 · Wiktionary contributors, “aioli”, linked revision · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original concise paraphrase of contributor-written definitions or factual prose. Puzzle connections and clue wording are independently authored. Adapted text is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. No third-party quotations, photographs, audio or publisher hint prose are reused.

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The answer

What kind of word
Wiktionary lists it as a noun.

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What it means
“A type of sauce made from garlic and olive oil, often with egg and lemon juice and similar to mayonnaise.”

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

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The middle letter
The middle letter is O.

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How it starts
How it ends
Reveal the answer
AIOLI

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Compare the letters after solving

For AIOLI, the pattern A___I fixes positions 1 and 5. It matches 27 of 14757 words in our independent five-letter dictionary: AALII, AARTI, ABACI, ACARI, ACINI, ADUKI, AGAMI, AGGRI ….

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Food words can include ingredients, utensils, dishes and cooking terms. This independent solver checks letter evidence; it does not claim that every candidate is in Phoodle's answer list.

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Also on January 20, 2023

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