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8 CACHED 9 DEIDE 10 AIAIAI 11 CAECHEDD 12 BEAGLED 13 CABBAGEHEAD 14 DEFENCE 15 BIGHEADED 16 DECAPOD 17 PHOBIA 18 MCBRIDE 19 ANISEED 20 PANTED 21 CLUBBER 22 DELVER 23 SAW-BACKED 24 SALT-CAKE 25 TRUDGE 26 HUMMER 27 SANDWICH 28 PHRASIAL 29 INELEGANT 30 LAMPMAKER 31 LABELLINGS 32 MECHANISES 33 ISOTHERE 34 PERFUMER 35 PREJUDGES 36 QUARRIES 37 LEONINELY 38 STORERS 39 STATEMENT 40 UNGULATES 41 PREMAMMARY 42 UNSMELLING 43 MERCURATING 44 SOLIDARITY 45 SELF-REVEALING 46 UNTENDERLY 47 VORTICITY 48 WOUNDINGLY 49 IMPERVIOUS 50 TONGUE-WAGGING 51 OVERSTRIDDEN 52 SUBDIVISIONAL

Nipper's nominal interest is the weather--weather, of course, having long been a subject of fascination for poets and thinkers: Goethe had his famous "weather glass," Heidegger his career as a World War I weatherman, while the propitious functioning of "isotherms and isotheres" on a "fine day in August 1913" frames the placid conditions from which erupt Robert Musil's Man Without Qualities (1930/1942).

The isotherms and isotheres were functioning as they should.