Speaking of "who picks these words" ... today's Standard (5th April 2021) strikes me as being some sort of late April Fool's joke.
I can't see any way of making just ONE nine-letter word out of that collection of letters, let alone two ...
EDIT: just 10 seconds after posting this, I found the two nine-letter words.
Even so, this puzzle is probably one of the most exasperating I've played to date.