Chaosword #6: 5 Sept 2026
CHAOSWORD#6 · Morning (5x5)
5 Sept 2026
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Morning Slip (5x5)
1 ACROSS [Smudge] In front, or further along in time or progress.
1 DOWN [Riot] Perform onstage, or pretend convincingly to be someone else?
2 DOWN [Ink] Open, uncultivated country, often covered with low shrubs.
3 DOWN [Smudge] World-weary boredom that makes even leisure feel like labor.
4 DOWN [Ink] Valuable resource, whether financial, human, or merely useful.
5 DOWN [Ink] Ottoman-era title borne by the ruler of Algiers before 1830.
6 ACROSS [Riot] Perfume a shrine by wafting aromatic smoke through its chambers?
7 ACROSS [Smudge] Yellow-flowered perennial herb with a name that sounds cheerful.
8 ACROSS [Ink] Day named for the Norse god Týr, in abbreviated form.
9 ACROSS [Riot] What a successful batter did, and what a comedian hopes to do?
Evening Tabloid (7x7)
1 ACROSS [Riot] Swindle, or oppose in debate?
1 DOWN [Riot] State abbreviation for the Golden State, with resinous reverse?
2 DOWN [Smudge] Yoko who married John Lennon
3 DOWN [Ink] Famous falls on the New York Ontario border
4 ACROSS [Ink] U.S. intelligence agency, for short
4 DOWN [Ink] Share a home without necessarily being wed
5 DOWN [Ink] Anger of the poetic sort
6 DOWN [Ink] Combine numbers, or increase a total
7 ACROSS [Ink] Tropical cuckoo relative with glossy plumage
8 ACROSS [Smudge] Chicago's three-letter airport gateway
9 ACROSS [Smudge] Was unable to stand, emotionally
10 DOWN [Riot] Weight unit, with a denial reversed?
11 ACROSS [Smudge] Indian state known for beaches and Portuguese heritage
12 ACROSS [Smudge] Informal seat that swallows its sitter
12 DOWN [Riot] Sheep's reply to a woolly question?
13 DOWN [Riot] Environmental agency, for short, with an animal reversed?
14 DOWN [Riot] Pirate's cry, in a comic-book spelling?
15 DOWN [Smudge] Cheerful, or describing same-sex attraction
16 ACROSS [Smudge] Month abbreviation following March
17 ACROSS [Ink] Retirement account with tax advantages, for short
18 ACROSS [Riot] Roadside aid, with triple-A billing?
19 ACROSS [Riot] Attempt to put a garment on?
Midnight Broadsheet (11x11)
1 ACROSS [Riot] Flat surface or governing committee, depending on the meeting room?
1 DOWN [Ink] Logarithmic unit for sound intensity, named after a famous inventor.
2 DOWN [Ink] Cheerful greeting heard in parts of Scandinavia and elsewhere.
3 DOWN [Smudge] Rebuking someone with the solemn confidence of a headmaster.
4 DOWN [Ink] Strap used to guide a horse, or a verb meaning to restrain it.
5 DOWN [Ink] In an extreme and far-reaching manner, with no room for half-measures.
6 ACROSS [Smudge] Broad strip of land or material, measured out with sweeping authority.
6 DOWN [Ink] Pertaining to strategy, especially when the plan sounds more impressive than it is.
7 DOWN [Ink] Member of a former British political party opposed to the Stuarts.
8 DOWN [Ink] Radiographic image showing the inside contours of an artery after contrast dye.
9 DOWN [Riot] Golf peg, or the letter that begins a surprisingly large number of golf excuses?
10 DOWN [Smudge] High explosive shells, rendered in military shorthand for compact records.
11 ACROSS [Ink] Tree whose flowers scent cordial and whose berries appear in old remedies.
12 ACROSS [Smudge] Count of musketeers in the famous literary trio plus one.
13 ACROSS [Ink] Female monster of Greek legend, often shown as serpent-bodied and winged.
14 ACROSS [Ink] Ceremonies or observances, especially those belonging to a religion.
15 ACROSS [Ink] Performing before a live audience, rather than waiting in the wings.
16 DOWN [Smudge] Unspoken but understood, like the rule everyone follows and denies.
17 ACROSS [Riot] Male child, or the familiar form of a musical composition?
17 DOWN [Ink] Take legal action against someone, preferably after consulting counsel.
18 DOWN [Ink] Active settings, informally, on a control panel or switchboard.
19 ACROSS [Riot] Cheap, gaudy decoration that believes subtlety is a personal insult?
20 ACROSS [Ink] Eggs gathered from fish, or a deer hunted under a sporting tradition.
21 DOWN [Ink] Canadian province, represented in postal shorthand.
22 DOWN [Ink] And other things of the same kind, in abbreviated form.
23 ACROSS [Smudge] Campus institution referred to casually by students and staff.
24 ACROSS [Smudge] Frozen water, or the substance that makes a drink aggressively refreshing.
25 ACROSS [Ink] Whole number, represented in programming shorthand rather than prose.
26 ACROSS [Ink] The letter S, pronounced as a word with courtroom certainty.
27 ACROSS [Ink] Smoked tobacco item, rendered in brief for a hurried list.
28 ACROSS [Ink] Available without a prescription, in pharmacy shorthand.
29 ACROSS [Ink] Process of making something warmer, often at considerable household expense.
30 DOWN [Smudge] One who makes mistakes, according to a compact dictionary entry.
31 DOWN [Ink] California wine valley, located in the state named by EVENING DOWN-1.
32 ACROSS [Smudge] Turn in a twisting course, like cream surrendering to hot coffee.
32 DOWN [Smudge] Health retreat offering baths, treatments, and an expensive robe.
33 DOWN [Ink] Pale and lacking vitality, as a landscape under weak winter light.
34 ACROSS [Ink] Cut a shape from wood, stone, or a roast, with deliberate precision.
35 DOWN [Ink] Compete for victory, particularly when pride has entered the room.
36 DOWN [Smudge] Make a mistake, then discover that confidence was not a correction method.
37 ACROSS [Ink] Distinct section of a display, discussion, or carefully arranged wall.
38 ACROSS [Riot] Two matching items, with the space removed by typographical impatience?
39 ACROSS [Smudge] Furious, especially after receiving advice that was not requested.
40 ACROSS [Smudge] More inept or objectionable than the rival already being criticized.