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Chaosword #5: 4 Sept 2026

#5·Morning (5x5)·Last Press Standing·4 Sept 2026
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Morning Slip (5x5)

1 ACROSS [Ink] Distant, cool, and not chatty
1 DOWN [Smudge] A knight's protective wardrobe
2 DOWN [Riot] Renting terms, put in writing?
3 DOWN [Ink] Group consisting of eight
4 DOWN [Riot] Funds making an exit?
5 DOWN [Ink] Liberates from confinement or duty
6 ACROSS [Riot] Return for an annoying encore?
7 ACROSS [Smudge] A finish with no appetite for glare
8 ACROSS [Ink] Great Plains nation with a river namesake
9 ACROSS [Smudge] Second tries, in the office?

Evening Tabloid (7x7)

1 ACROSS [Ink] Loose-fitting, as an ill-chosen sweater.
1 DOWN [Ink] A small child, in Italian.
2 DOWN [Ink] A period of history, or one's years lived.
3 DOWN [Ink] A female deity in mythology or religion.
4 DOWN [Ink] A low sound expressing pain, weariness, or protest.
5 DOWN [Smudge] A pleasure boat, often with more teak than necessity.
6 ACROSS [Ink] A public marketplace and meeting place in ancient Greece.
7 ACROSS [Ink] A Bordeaux wine region famed for its red wines.
8 ACROSS [Riot] Baby's spill-catching neckwear?
8 DOWN [Ink] Boast about one's achievements, usually at length.
9 DOWN [Ink] The treacherous ensign in Shakespeare's Othello.
10 ACROSS [Ink] The longer signal in Morse code, paired with a dit.
11 ACROSS [Smudge] Clothing or garments, in a distinctly old-fashioned term.
12 DOWN [Smudge] Wet, soft earth that turns boots into evidence.
13 ACROSS [Ink] The Latin word for a lamb.
14 ACROSS [Ink] Merchandise offered for sale, or personal belongings.

Midnight Broadsheet (11x11)

1 ACROSS [Riot] A young sheep's plaintive cry, or a complaint with less dignity?
1 DOWN [Smudge] A person reduced to three letters, in gym or show-business talk.
2 DOWN [Smudge] It can mean horizontal repose or a deliberate falsehood.
3 DOWN [Ink] Added detail that turns a bare statement into a fuller account.
4 DOWN [Smudge] A flight-related combining form, useful when one word will not do.
5 DOWN [Smudge] With pointed force, cutting through evasions rather than paper.
6 ACROSS [Riot] Release from custody based on a promise, not a cash pile?
6 DOWN [Smudge] Health-adjacent, but not quite physician territory.
7 DOWN [Smudge] So excited for news that patience has left the room.
8 DOWN [Riot] Acting out a character such as EVENING DOWN-9, for instance.
9 DOWN [Ink] Ear, nose, and throat specialty, in brief.
10 DOWN [Smudge] Spanish feminine plural article, setting up a grammar lesson?
11 ACROSS [Riot] One who lubricates machinery, or a tanker carrying petroleum?
12 ACROSS [Smudge] Ancient Greek marketplace where commerce and civic life rubbed shoulders.
13 ACROSS [Ink] Beloved ones, in an archaic or poetic plural spelling.
14 ACROSS [Riot] Small breads, or what dice and drums often do?
15 ACROSS [Smudge] Oppressive restraint, literal or figurative, with no room to wriggle.
16 DOWN [Smudge] Make a challenge feel larger than one's nerve can comfortably manage.
17 ACROSS [Riot] Australian cracker brand, whose name sounds like a saint in a hurry?
17 DOWN [Smudge] Restorative retreat where water does much of the persuading.
18 DOWN [Riot] Sound made when relief arrives before punctuation?
19 ACROSS [Smudge] Rotating gadget that turns one sort of motion into another.
20 ACROSS [Riot] Indicating something earlier, as a word-forming element?
21 DOWN [Riot] Tease persistently, often about a familiar sore spot?
22 DOWN [Smudge] Female sheep, with a woolly distinction from her mate.
23 ACROSS [Riot] Standard score for a hole in golf, or an equal footing?
24 ACROSS [Smudge] Color character, distinguishing scarlet from crimson without naming either.
25 ACROSS [Smudge] Rules that can be broken without making them less official.
26 ACROSS [Riot] Cry marking sudden understanding, or Swedish pop trio?
27 ACROSS [Smudge] Small joining word doing large amounts of connective labor.
28 ACROSS [Riot] Years lived, or what old wine is said to acquire?
29 ACROSS [Riot] At full gallop, in an expression that arrived wearing spurs?
30 DOWN [Smudge] Wing-related, in anatomy, where feathers are not required.
31 DOWN [Smudge] Wind-pointing instrument that has made weather its sole concern.
32 ACROSS [Ink] Leaning to one side rather than standing straight.
32 DOWN [Ink] Residue left after something combustible has burned.
33 DOWN [Ink] Definite article for a noun already singled out.
34 ACROSS [Ink] Egypt's capital, situated along the Nile.
35 DOWN [Smudge] Standard, in abbreviated form, as a recurring appointment might be.
36 DOWN [Riot] Breathing gas, in casual medical shorthand, or a drug-related prefix?
37 ACROSS [Riot] A shallow place in water, or a large gathering of fish?
38 ACROSS [Riot] Add a side room, or tack an extra section onto a document?
39 ACROSS [Riot] Inductance unit, or a monarch's first name?
40 ACROSS [Smudge] Having unusually long, slender legs, like a young foal.