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Daily puzzle · target 188. This puzzle has closed — today’s is here.
The clue
How deeply a chill can reach you, and what makes a cook cry, and the one a farmer blanches by burying.
The rack
Eighteen tiles were on the board. Every letter is worth its place in the alphabet, A = 1 to Z = 26.
W23R18R18O15N14I9R18O15R18E5K11O15A1M13L12E5E5N14
The answer
3 words, hitting 188 exactly: MARROW ONION LEEK.
M13A1R18R18O15W23= 88
+O15N14I9O15N14= 67
+L12E5E5K11= 33
MARROW 88 + ONION 67 + LEEK 33 = 188. SumHunt reads left to right, so there is no operator precedence to trip over.