LA Times Crossword

May 18, 2023

Adam Wagner and Rebecca Goldstein

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The first four phrases below have something in common that is hinted at by the fifth clue. Can you determine what it is? HINT:  Anagrams

1. EDITORIAL WE

2. DETAIL WORK

3. MATERIAL WORLD

4. HAIR TOWELS

5. Substances that never mix, except in the clues above

Answer:

 

OIL and WATER

 

Each of the first four phrases contains the scrambled, but consecutive, letters, O, I, L, W, A, T, E, R:

 

1. ediTORIAL WE

2. dETAIL WORk

3. maTERIAL WOrld

4. hAIR TOWELs 

Puzzle title: EMULSIFIED WORDS