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Chaosword #29: 28 Sept 2026

#29·Morning (5x5)·Forecast Corrections·28 Sept 2026
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Morning Slip (5x5)

1 ACROSS [Ink] Strike hard or move air with force
1 DOWN [Riot] Support for a bust, perhaps?
2 DOWN [Ink] Admires deeply, as one might a favorite artist
3 DOWN [Ink] Speak formally before an audience
4 DOWN [Ink] Welsh surname meaning fair or blessed
5 ACROSS [Ink] McIlroy of golf, for one
6 ACROSS [Ink] In front, to a French speaker
7 DOWN [Smudge] Black, sticky material used in paving and roofing
8 ACROSS [Ink] Sicilian volcano, Europe's largest active one
9 ACROSS [Smudge] Fortune-teller with supposedly second sight

Evening Tabloid (7x7)

1 ACROSS [Ink] Highly skilled, as a craftsperson who has mastered the tricky bits.
1 DOWN [Smudge] What MORNING ACROSS-1 may leave a house of cards?
2 DOWN [Ink] Refusal to accept a fact, often despite an inconvenient mountain of evidence.
3 DOWN [Ink] Made possible, as access granted by a successful setting change.
4 DOWN [Ink] Baked pastry with a filling, whether fruit, custard, or something savory.
5 DOWN [Ink] Small New World monkey, often marked by a mane or striking facial hair.
6 ACROSS [Ink] Relating to the penis, in anatomical terminology.
7 DOWN [Ink] Flowering plants known for showy, often trumpet-shaped blooms.
8 ACROSS [Ink] Lacking healthy color or vigor, as blood with too few red cells.
9 DOWN [Smudge] Come to an end, as rain does when the stubborn front finally moves on.
10 ACROSS [Ink] Curved bone forming part of the chest wall, protecting heart and lungs.
11 ACROSS [Ink] A fermented drink brewed from malt, with yeast working at warmer temperatures.
12 ACROSS [Riot] Mercury's footwear, for a god who preferred errands with lift?
13 DOWN [Ink] Latin salutation meaning hail, used in formal address.
14 ACROSS [Ink] Taxes collected by authority, or forces raised for military service.
15 ACROSS [Smudge] Closely packed or difficult to see through, like fog in a narrow valley.

Midnight Broadsheet (11x11)

1 ACROSS [Smudge] Rock chameleon who created Ziggy Stardust
1 DOWN [Ink] Wager placed on a racehorse
2 DOWN [Ink] Spanish cheer of approval
3 DOWN [Ink] Hopeful thinking without much evidence
4 DOWN [Ink] Tiny amount, in Greek-letter form
5 DOWN [Ink] Scholar who traces where words came from
6 ACROSS [Smudge] Women, in old-fashioned parlance
6 DOWN [Ink] Offensive to the palate or sensibilities
7 DOWN [Ink] Opposed to a policy, informally
8 DOWN [Ink] Cargo ships, especially in wartime
9 DOWN [Ink] Distinct historical period
10 DOWN [Smudge] Pigpen or filthy place
11 ACROSS [Ink] Poet behind The Waste Land
12 ACROSS [Ink] Inactive and showing no movement
13 ACROSS [Ink] Irritable and easily annoyed
14 ACROSS [Ink] Wander from the proper path
15 ACROSS [Ink] Relating to Ham, in an old language classification
16 DOWN [Ink] Pertaining to the final section of the small intestine
17 ACROSS [Ink] Mischievous fantasy creature with pointed ears
17 DOWN [Ink] Greek letter used in statistics and science
18 DOWN [Ink] Rule enforced by a state or court
19 ACROSS [Ink] Portuguese greeting, usually accented
20 ACROSS [Ink] Latin for here, in legal phrasing
21 DOWN [Ink] Constructed language derived from Esperanto
22 DOWN [Ink] Small rotating part in an engine
23 ACROSS [Ink] Greek letter often used for torque
24 ACROSS [Ink] French plural definite article
25 ACROSS [Ink] Programming language named for a pioneering mathematician
26 ACROSS [Riot] Tool for making a point?
27 ACROSS [Ink] Grain commonly found in porridge
28 ACROSS [Ink] Name, as written in French
29 ACROSS [Ink] Failure to give proper care
30 DOWN [Ink] Great Lake bordering Ohio and New York
31 DOWN [Ink] Actress Blanchett, by her first name
32 ACROSS [Smudge] Guy known for Flavortown and frosted tips
32 DOWN [Ink] Placeholder word in programming and technical jargon
33 DOWN [Ink] Actor McKellen, by his first name
34 ACROSS [Ink] Widely known and celebrated
35 DOWN [Ink] Entity-relationship diagram, in brief
36 DOWN [Ink] Early PC operating systems from Microsoft
37 ACROSS [Ink] Desert refuge centered on a water source
38 ACROSS [Ink] Womb-related, in a Latin phrase
39 ACROSS [Ink] Beginning of an event or process
40 ACROSS [Ink] Provides for temporary use