sometimes I like trying to figure how you progressed to the solution. This one was easy, at least to see what you must have used for the third word, which made the solution a given. Good job.
With my third word, I was left with three possible common words and I just lucked up. It's funny the little charge you get when that missing fifth letter (or letters) turns up green, it's like winning a tiny lottery.
I think you play differently than me. I always use a word that could be a winner, where I think you sometimes use a word that can not be a winner, just to fish for letters. And I'm not sure, but I think you're more of a consonant hunter than I am, because I am a vowel guy. I want those vowels, and then I fill in around them. Both approaches seem to work. I was using a variety of different starting words, whatever came to mind...but I've had more luck since I have taken to beginning with that same, vowel-laden word.