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Chaosword #24: 23 Sept 2026

#24·Morning (5x5)·Loose Leaf Logic·23 Sept 2026
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Morning Slip (5x5)

1 ACROSS [Ink] Of poor quality or morally objectionable.
1 DOWN [Riot] Assign fault, preferably after investigating the evidence?
2 DOWN [Ink] Raised place for rites, offerings, or a solemn vow.
3 DOWN [Smudge] Judges' pronouncements, or anyone's weighty declarations?
4 ACROSS [Smudge] European shad that migrates upstream to spawn?
4 DOWN [Smudge] Collected sayings and anecdotes about a person or subject?
5 DOWN [Ink] Pronoun for a female person in traditional English grammar.
6 ACROSS [Riot] Naturally, according to a slangy little adverb?
7 ACROSS [Riot] Befriend, perhaps after an awkward introduction?
8 ACROSS [Ink] A span marked by distinctive events or conditions.

Evening Tabloid (7x7)

1 ACROSS [Riot] Target, or what a dart player does?
1 DOWN [Smudge] Gym mirrors most frequently admired muscles?
2 DOWN [Riot] Annoying enough to make patience pack a lunch?
3 DOWN [Ink] One who brings letters, and occasionally bills
4 ACROSS [Ink] Brazilian city on Guanabara Bay
4 DOWN [Ink] Became ready for picking
5 DOWN [Smudge] Without movement, as a dormant machine might sit
6 DOWN [Smudge] Strange, or not divisible by two
7 ACROSS [Riot] Support with straps, perhaps, that rarely gets applause?
8 ACROSS [Ink] Unaffiliated, in brief
9 ACROSS [Smudge] Passed over, as a stone on water did
10 DOWN [Smudge] Baked filling beneath a flaky lid
11 ACROSS [Smudge] More devious, perhaps, but not necessarily wiser
12 ACROSS [Ink] Physics quantities of motion
12 DOWN [Riot] Permission, with a root vegetable in reverse?
13 DOWN [Ink] African Methodist Episcopal, in brief
14 ACROSS [Smudge] Online question session, in brief?
15 ACROSS [Smudge] Shade tree associated with a notorious fungal disease
16 ACROSS [Riot] A craving that can also be spent in Tokyo?
17 ACROSS [Riot] Color fabric, or what a barber may apply?

Midnight Broadsheet (11x11)

1 ACROSS [Ink] Mass of congealed blood
1 DOWN [Smudge] Domestic feline known for selective obedience
2 DOWN [Riot] Sheltered side, where the wind loses interest?
3 DOWN [Smudge] Florida airport grouping code, in brief
4 DOWN [Riot] Like a wedding cake with vertical ambitions?
5 ACROSS [Ink] Places offering massages and mineral baths
5 DOWN [Ink] Relating to languages such as Polish or Russian
6 DOWN [Ink] Excavated hole in the ground
7 DOWN [Smudge] What a fire leaves behind when it has finished
8 DOWN [Smudge] Pigpen, in a decidedly unglamorous phrase
9 ACROSS [Smudge] Circus performer working high above the floor
10 DOWN [Smudge] Copied someone closely, perhaps without dignity
11 ACROSS [Riot] Supposed communication between minds without speech?
12 ACROSS [Ink] Clergy title, for short
13 ACROSS [Ink] Officially recognizing as qualified
13 DOWN [Smudge] Wonder mixed with a little fear
14 DOWN [Riot] Protozoans equipped with built in oars?
15 DOWN [Smudge] Rich deep red, poetically
16 DOWN [Ink] Harvesting a crop, in the literal sense
17 DOWN [Ink] Paint made with pigment and egg yolk
18 DOWN [Smudge] In the best possible circumstances
19 DOWN [Riot] Child minders who may call bedtime nonnegotiable?
20 DOWN [Ink] Graduate school exam, for short
21 ACROSS [Riot] Connected by cables, or unusually alert?
22 ACROSS [Smudge] Aromatic evergreen used in chests and pencils
23 ACROSS [Ink] Pen name used by Charles Lamb
24 ACROSS [Smudge] Biblical word from the writing on the wall
25 ACROSS [Smudge] Mischievous small supernatural creature
26 ACROSS [Riot] Greek god with goat legs, or a shallow cooking vessel?
27 ACROSS [Riot] Fundamental, or chemically opposite of acidic?
27 DOWN [Riot] Place serving drinks, or a measure of pressure?
28 DOWN [Riot] Letter sounding like a stretch of shoreline?
29 ACROSS [Ink] Accept as true, despite appearances
29 DOWN [Riot] Comic book sound of sudden impact?
30 DOWN [Smudge] Eastern Standard Time, in brief
31 ACROSS [Ink] Make amends for wrongdoing
32 ACROSS [Ink] French city painted by Van Gogh
33 ACROSS [Riot] Scope, or a place for target practice?
34 ACROSS [Ink] Old form of you may, in poetry