Polygon 25 and 26 July

Polygon puzzle 25 July

Using the given letters no more than once, make as many words as possible of three or more letters, always including the central letter. Capitalised words, plurals, conjugated verbs (past tense etc), adverbs ending in LY, comparatives and superlatives are disallowed.

How you rate: 12 words, average; 16, good; 20, very good; 25, excellent.

Polygon puzzle 26 July

Using the given letters no more than once, make as many words as possible of three or more letters, always including the central letter. Capitalised words, plurals, conjugated verbs (past tense etc), adverbs ending in LY, comparatives and superlatives are disallowed.

How you rate: 10 words, average; 14, good; 17, very good; 21, excellent.

Source: The Times

Answers in the comments.

Comments

[Maxine]

25 July answers:
emir, ism, isomer, kermis, mike, mire, mirk, miser, miso, moire, moke, more, rem, rim, rime, semi, sim, skim, smirk, smoke, smoker, smokie, som, some

irksome is the word containing all the letters.

26 July answers:
agal, alga, along, anal, analog, gal, gala, gaol, gayal, goal, lag, lagan, lay, loa, loan, log, logy, long, nyala, only

analogy is the word using all the letters.

[Susan]

I didn't perform too well today! I got 13 on the July 25 puzzle and missed irksome. I knew that comparatives and superlatives weren't accepted, but I thought the word with all the letters just had to be smokier. Once I came up with smokier, I stopped thinking.

I got 14 on the July 26 puzzle, including analogy. I only missed three that I 'should' have got - the others were words I've never seen before.