Another tortuous 5 today. Starter word gave me nothing.

and I realised I‘d fallen into that deep Atlantic trench and picked a word thati used proper English spelling and not the colonial version 
2 today.
GYXXX Left only one option that I could think of.
4. 1y, 2y, 2y, 5g. I don't know why that one was so hard. I was so nearly there a guess or two earlier but somehow didn't quite get that far![]()