Yeah, that’s just mining. 
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Kinda like boning and deboning? 
Depends on whether you’re talking about cooking in both instances…
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Bahahaha. Touché!
Raveling and unraveling. Flammable and inflammable. Ah, English.
It’s a wonderful language. How to spell fish in a fun way: ghoti.
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Kinda surprised that flanken is not allowed. I feel like it’s not that obscure a word? But maybe that’s only true for people with backgrounds like mine.
I can’t look yet as I’m in the thick of it & just got past Genius 
Of course. I always wait a day to unspoil this thread.
The past tense of it was my first guess for the pangram, although there probz isn’t a past tense for it, just like unmining doesn’t exist 
It’s putting stuff back in the ground, I guess. But I don’t think that’s a thing!
Today’s SB had lotsa food words: agar, alga, arugula, bulgur, grub, guar, ragu.
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Man, I suckkkkked today. I never check hints until I hit Genius, but I was dismayed to have missed tahini and tannin.
D’oh!
I missed tahini.
No natto and according to one of my Arab students, the correct word is Tahina which NYT doesn’t accept 
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Same, but I didn’t want to spoil the puzzle for others, so it’s blurred 
It shall remain a mystery that natto is not allowed, but annatto is.
Fickle, fickle NYT!
That’s why I blurred it also.
I’m just glad they started accepting annatto. Used to drive me crazy, along with teff (which they eventually accepted).
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If I can get to amazing before I start checking hints I feel good. And once I hit genius I move on to connections (ugh), letterbox, tiles, strands and mini crossword. For some reason always do wordle first thing in the morning and do everything else in late afternoon.
I learned a new term today.
