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@Algot You were!

Had English been my mother tongue, I'd have kept on trying to match words I knew to the grid, confident that I *would* know the secret word.

But English is not my mother tongue, so I was aware that I might not know the word I was looking for.

Thus instead of relying on my own vocabulary, I quickly switched to looking for 7-letter sequences which looked like an English word or a part of one.

The only contenders were HITFLIB and FLIBBER.

Google did the rest…