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Daily puzzle · target 125. This puzzle has closed — today’s is here.
The clue
What you do to a CV for each job, and what a hardback loses first.
The rack
Eighteen tiles were on the board. Every letter is worth its place in the alphabet, A = 1 to Z = 26.
N14I9I9T20A1A1K11R18A1C3L12E5N14O15I9T20M13J10
The answer
2 words, hitting 125 exactly: TAILOR JACKET.
T20A1I9L12O15R18= 75
+J10A1C3K11E5T20= 50
TAILOR 75 + JACKET 50 = 125. SumHunt reads left to right, so there is no operator precedence to trip over.