I Don't Mean To Brag ... But That's Not True

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This puzzle is 

the New York Times

Spelling Bee

and

—very proudly—

I achieved

83 percent 

GENIUS status

  on this day

without 

 rounding up

because

856/1031

equals

.8302 

 

It happened

sometime last week

 

Unfortunately,

the puzzle

is masterminded

by someone with a

4th-grade

Flunk & Wagnalls

dictionary:

 

He determines

which words

are acceptable

and 

which are not

 

"Hiphop"

is unacceptable

but

"Ratatat"

is

 

Go figure 

 

I provide 

no hyperlink

to the puzzle

because

I do not want

the creator

of this puzzle

to blacklist me

from playing 

the game  

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