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#EnigMarch is a daily puzzle creation challenge; each day during the month of March, it double-dares everyone to create a puzzle. I made a puzzle today:

We place "egg" words in "nest" words and hope that new words hatch. Here, "eggs" are three-letter words and "nests" are four-letter words; nestle the three-letter word in the center of the four-letter word. E.g., if the "egg" is ARE and the "nest" is NEST, we hatch the word NE-ARE-ST: NEAREST.

If the "nests" are: DEED LEON ORAL PIER REDS REED SHOW

…and the "eggs" are: ALL BAN BIT FIN ONE SIR WAR

…then hatch these words:

classy _ _ ◯ _ _ _ _
way out there _ _ _ _ _ _ ◯
early arrival _ _ _ _ _ ◯ _
valuable ◯ _ _ _ _ _ _
 
nation _ _ _ ◯ _ _ _
payoffs _ _ _ _ _ _ ◯
puddle-like _ ◯ _ _ _ _ _

The circled letters yield another nest and egg; what's the final hatched word?

Here's the answer, ROT13'd:

    
pynffl        S ersvarq errq sva
jnl bhg gurer Y beovgny beny ovg
rneyl neeviny R cvbarre cvre bar
inyhnoyr      Q qrfverq qrrq fve

angvba        N Yronaba Yrba ona
cnlbssf       F erjneqf erqf jne
chqqyr yvxr   U funyybj fubj nyy

Gur svany jbeq vf SYNFURQ.

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