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Chaosword #49: 18 Oct 2026

No. 4918 Oct 2026

Small Pieces, Tall Tales

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Morning Slip (5x5)

1 ACROSS [Ink] Unit of land measuring 43,560 square feet
1 DOWN [Smudge] In the past, relative to the present moment
2 DOWN [Riot] Small bit of food, left to mark a trail?
3 DOWN [Smudge] Person out of bed before most others
4 DOWN [Ink] Swelling caused by excess fluid in body tissues
5 ACROSS [Smudge] Network of intersecting lines, useful for plotting positions
6 ACROSS [Smudge] Blackbird, in an old-fashioned bird name
7 DOWN [Riot] Ship's diary, or what a tree leaves behind?
8 ACROSS [Smudge] Brief written reminder sent around an office
9 ACROSS [Riot] Boast that turns to refuse when reversed?

Evening Tabloid (7x7)

1 ACROSS [Riot] Ballet step, or French “not”?
1 DOWN [Smudge] Teacher, in an old-fashioned term
2 DOWN [Ink] Calendar shorthand for the eighth month
3 DOWN [Smudge] Taking shots from a hidden position
4 ACROSS [Ink] Unite again, in a rare verb
4 DOWN [Riot] Enjoy oneself when a handle is reversed?
5 DOWN [Smudge] Opponent across a line of conflict
6 ACROSS [Smudge] Avoiding a firm commitment
6 DOWN [Riot] Sound from a fridge, or a wordless tune?
7 DOWN [Riot] Empty talk that escapes?
8 ACROSS [Ink] University of Virginia, in brief
9 ACROSS [Smudge] Tiny green seed in a pod
10 ACROSS [Ink] Headaches by an old-fashioned name
11 DOWN [Smudge] Payback on an investment, in brief
12 ACROSS [Riot] Crazy, with a bird hiding inside?
13 ACROSS [Riot] Music job that reads the same both ways?

Midnight Broadsheet (11x11)

1 ACROSS [Ink] Front bones of the lower legs
1 DOWN [Ink] Health resort offering mineral baths
2 DOWN [Ink] Put out of sight, in the past
3 DOWN [Ink] Self-governing, not controlled by others
4 DOWN [Ink] Having no legal or practical force
5 DOWN [Ink] Dashboard gauge for rate of travel
6 ACROSS [Ink] Fatty molecule found in living tissue
6 DOWN [Ink] Informal term for a U.S. Marine
7 DOWN [Ink] Latin for “himself”
8 DOWN [Ink] Without the ability to act
9 DOWN [Ink] Mount ___, where Zeus was raised in myth
10 DOWN [Ink] Historical title for a ruler of Algiers
11 ACROSS [Smudge] Photograph of an attractive person, traditionally displayed
12 ACROSS [Ink] Classical poem with alternating line lengths
13 ACROSS [Riot] Confuse a cook with an ink-stained recipe card?
14 ACROSS [Smudge] With a gentle side-to-side motion
15 ACROSS [Ink] Person chosen by voters for office
16 DOWN [Smudge] Non-Mason doing a mason’s work
17 ACROSS [Smudge] Nothing at all, in a terse expression
17 DOWN [Ink] British name for the final letter
18 DOWN [Ink] Nickname of President Eisenhower
19 ACROSS [Smudge] Homer Simpson’s exasperated cry
20 ACROSS [Ink] Curved bone protecting the chest
21 DOWN [Ink] Atom or molecule bearing an electric charge
22 DOWN [Ink] Person, in casual speech
23 ACROSS [Ink] Stretch out scant resources
24 ACROSS [Ink] Have a debt to repay
25 ACROSS [Ink] British term for a toilet
26 ACROSS [Ink] Shelter where a wild animal sleeps
27 ACROSS [Riot] Damage MORNING ACROSS-1’s surface?
28 ACROSS [Ink] Conclusion or stopping point
29 ACROSS [Smudge] Chaperones in old-fashioned usage
30 DOWN [Ink] Archaic preposition meaning “to”
31 DOWN [Smudge] On the ocean, in nautical wording
32 ACROSS [Smudge] Unpunctuated negative contraction
32 DOWN [Ink] First name of programmer Lovelace
33 DOWN [Ink] Plural of an Egyptian sun deity
34 ACROSS [Ink] Short piece of nonfiction prose
35 DOWN [Smudge] Unaccented form of à la, meaning “in the style of”
36 DOWN [Smudge] Talk at length, often aimlessly
37 ACROSS [Ink] Italian poet who wrote the Commedia
38 ACROSS [Ink] Inner chamber of an ancient temple
39 ACROSS [Ink] Surname of a prominent American real-estate family
40 ACROSS [Riot] Small paddle craft whose name reads the same backward?