New Delhi, July 13 -- COMMITTAL (9 letters, 16 points), which uses all seven letters of the grid. The puzzle contains 59 total words.

Hint 1: The pangram is a legal and formal term - the act of formally committing someone to prison or a psychiatric facility. It ends in -AL.

Hint 2: A 9-letter Mexican culinary ingredient is hiding in the grid. It is a small green fruit encased in a papery husk, used in salsa verde.

Hint 3: Two 9-letter words share a root but mean different things: one describes the peak of dramatic action; the other describes weather and atmospheric conditions.

Today's pangram: COMMITTAL - the formal act of committing a person to a prison or institution, or the burial of a body. C-O-M-M-I-T-T-A-L uses all seven letters...