New Delhi, July 24 -- EVOKING, worth 14 points. If you have reached Queen Bee, every word on this page is confirmed.

Hints (spoiler-free)

Hint 1: The center letter K must appear in every word.

Hint 2: The only pangram is a 7-letter present participle meaning to summon a feeling, memory, or image to mind.

Hint 3: Today's board includes the sound a pig makes, a common mushroom in Japanese cooking, and a Scandinavian seafarer from the medieval era.

The Pangram: EVOKING

EVOKING derives from the Latin evocare - to call forth - and has been in steady English use since the 17th century. In contemporary writing it appears most often in arts and political criticism: a piece of music evokes a landscape; a speech evokes a predecessor's resolve...