After guess 3 I had visions of failure. With 'a__er' I had 'amber', 'auger', 'adder', 'aider' (among others) still left so I was nervous. Fortunately it was the first one.
Yet another poorly-ordered choice of guesses. After guess 1 I was thinking of 'chair', 'brain' and 'braid' so I guessed those (unfortunately) in that order.