Chaosword #33: 2 Oct 2026
CHAOSWORD#33 · Morning (5x5)
2 Oct 2026
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#33·Morning (5x5)·High Tide Type·2 Oct 2026
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Morning Slip (5x5)
1 ACROSS [Ink] Water, in classical Latin
1 DOWN [Smudge] Put a rule to work in practice
2 DOWN [Smudge] An archaic term for a young woman
3 DOWN [Ink] The way a word is commonly employed
4 DOWN [Smudge] Request information, rather than guess badly
5 ACROSS [Riot] A cat, or a face worth pinching?
6 ACROSS [Riot] At the summit, where ambition likes to linger?
6 DOWN [Ink] Toward the stern of a vessel
7 ACROSS [Riot] Signal with cloth, or grow weary?
8 ACROSS [Ink] Northeastern English river reaching the North Sea
Evening Tabloid (7x7)
1 ACROSS [Smudge] Spicy, steamy, or currently popular
1 DOWN [Riot] Cattle tender, or livestock's middle manager?
2 DOWN [Ink] Spherical body, such as a planet
3 DOWN [Riot] Bell ringing, with fees possibly involved?
4 ACROSS [Ink] Needle-shaped, as some leaves
4 DOWN [Smudge] Recognition handed over with a handshake
5 DOWN [Riot] Wicker worker, perhaps with a flexible career?
6 DOWN [Ink] French river or fisher's net?
7 DOWN [Ink] First name of painter Kirchner
8 ACROSS [Smudge] Small songbird that treats silence as a personal challenge?
9 ACROSS [Ink] Tiny connector joining two thoughts
10 ACROSS [Riot] Nothing, turned around?
11 ACROSS [Smudge] What survives after the cleanup crew departs
12 DOWN [Ink] Earlier than now, as in three years before
13 ACROSS [Riot] Police sweep, or a net with arresting reach?
14 ACROSS [Smudge] Holiday drink, often improved by a splash of rum
Midnight Broadsheet (11x11)
1 ACROSS [Smudge] Protective covering for a knight, a tank, or a delicate ego?
1 DOWN [Ink] Creative skill or expression, whether painted, performed, or practiced.
2 DOWN [Ink] Profit measure comparing gain with initial outlay, for short.
3 DOWN [Smudge] In a way suggesting lethal intent, even when the weapon is only wit.
4 DOWN [Ink] S-shaped curve found in decorative molding and occasionally in typography.
5 DOWN [Smudge] Calculate again after new evidence makes the first result look suspicious.
6 ACROSS [Ink] Routes from one place to another, whether paved, plotted, or philosophical.
6 DOWN [Ink] Relating to tissues surrounding and supporting the teeth, medically speaking.
7 DOWN [Ink] An indefinitely long span, in geological or cosmic reckoning.
8 DOWN [Riot] Cave dwellers, or people whose social calendar seems subterranean?
9 DOWN [Smudge] That male person, grammatically placed on the receiving end of action.
10 DOWN [Ink] Archaic spelling of a common verb meaning to utter words.
11 ACROSS [Smudge] French-named cheek color, or a theatrical attempt at a red face?
12 ACROSS [Smudge] Strangely unsettling, as a hallway that seems to remember your name.
13 ACROSS [Ink] Worn out after a long day, a long meeting, or both at once.
14 ACROSS [Ink] Offering plenty of elbow room, luggage space, or room for one more.
15 ACROSS [Smudge] Transferring property by legal instrument, a remarkably formal way to give.
16 DOWN [Ink] Italian ocean liner sunk in 1956 after colliding with another vessel.
17 ACROSS [Ink] Exist, for several subjects in the present tense of the verb to be.
17 DOWN [Smudge] Toward the stern, where the ship keeps its less glamorous secrets.
18 DOWN [Ink] Uncooked, untreated, or emotionally unvarnished, depending on context.
19 ACROSS [Smudge] Excessively, or in addition, a small word with two jobs and no overtime.
20 ACROSS [Riot] Flax fiber in Scots usage, or a surname carried by several public figures?
21 DOWN [Ink] Cretan mountain where Greek myth says the infant Zeus was raised.
22 DOWN [Ink] Old Scottish term for a hooligan, giving bad behavior a regional label.
23 ACROSS [Ink] At a considerable distance, or by a notably wide margin.
24 ACROSS [Ink] Database sketch showing entities and their links, in brief.
25 ACROSS [Ink] Lyric poem addressed to a person, object, or idea with some ceremony.
26 ACROSS [Smudge] A pair's numerical label, or the number of shoes in a sensible set.
27 ACROSS [Ink] Brazilian city famed for Carnival, beaches, and a very recognizable skyline.
28 ACROSS [Ink] Father, in the familiar family register rather than the legal one.
29 ACROSS [Smudge] Lacking traits conventionally associated with male behavior, whatever those are.
30 DOWN [Ink] Noble gas that glows red-orange in a familiar kind of sign.
31 DOWN [Riot] Tibetan Buddhist teacher, or a South American camelid?
32 ACROSS [Ink] Second-generation Japanese American, in the established generational term.
32 DOWN [Smudge] At this moment, with no patience for postponement.
33 DOWN [Ink] Irish republican organization, in brief, with a long and troubled history.
34 ACROSS [Ink] Member of a Turkic people historically associated with Eurasia.
35 DOWN [Smudge] Lincoln's familiar first name, preserved in countless history lessons.
36 DOWN [Ink] Absorbed-dose unit largely superseded by the gray in modern usage.
37 ACROSS [Ink] Acrylic fiber brand introduced by DuPont, once a staple of synthetic wardrobes.
38 ACROSS [Smudge] Single-celled organism whose shape-changing habits made biology textbooks sigh.
39 ACROSS [Riot] John, the actor whose screen roles favored the saddle and stoic resolve?
40 ACROSS [Ink] Used a focused beam on tissue, in the past tense of a technical verb.