Scouring azure confidences, smoke detectors, and woolly mammoths

High-scoring words of the night:

EMPLOYER (400 points) - against Louise G. [4W, 5W]
INFARE (500 points) - against Millie F. [2W, two 5W]
SCOURER (405 points) - against Shyama P. [5W, two 3W]
ANSAE (199 points) - against Jenny H. [two 4W, hook off BA for a plural]
ANSAE (121 points) - against Lise M. [4W, 5W, hook off ROOT to make TA]
WOOS (113 points) - against Alice P. [5W, 4L on W, hook off TORE to make STORE]
KNOWS (126 points) - against Lori P. [two 3W]
AZURE (427 points) - against Kim P. [two 5W]
CONFIDE (1500 points) - against Maureen W. [4W, two 5W]
XU (545 points; 5L on X), VAT (721 points; 4L on V), DANDILY (3297 points; a good deficit-erasing word!), BUNTS (2000 points; 3W, hook off CANT to make SCANT) - against Sheri A. {crazy game}


I set off the smoke detector again tonight - guess I'll have to clean those stove pans!

Trivia fact for Wednesday, June 9: What famous explorer headed the first organized dig that found fossilized remains of mastodons and woolly mammoths in the United States? William Clark, of Lewis and Clark fame. He was commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 to organize a paleontological dig in a salt marsh in what is now Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky.