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Chaosword #55: 24 Oct 2026

No. 5524 Oct 2026

Feathers And Pharaohs

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Morning Slip (5x5)

1 ACROSS [Smudge] Noisy corvid often seen raiding backyard feeders
1 DOWN [Riot] Prophet with the worst fish story?
2 DOWN [Ink] Little Orphan's given name
3 DOWN [Ink] Contraction meaning 'you are'
4 ACROSS [Ink] Surname of artist Yoko
5 ACROSS [Ink] Invalidate by official action
5 DOWN [Ink] Duke's athletic conference, for short
6 DOWN [Riot] Cut back a branch, or reduce a bloated draft?
7 ACROSS [Smudge] Egyptian capital where the Nile does heavy lifting
8 ACROSS [Riot] Bird call that sounds inexpensive?

Evening Tabloid (7x7)

1 ACROSS [Ink] Short reply confirming that an online message has been received
1 DOWN [Smudge] Typical amount or level, neither notably high nor low
2 DOWN [Smudge] One still in the running for a title, prize, or final spot
3 DOWN [Ink] Pulling someone's leg rather than expecting to be taken seriously
4 ACROSS [Ink] French infinitive meaning to possess or have
4 DOWN [Smudge] Nursemaid or household servant, especially in older Asian usage
5 DOWN [Smudge] Spool for film, thread, or fishing line, a winding device
6 ACROSS [Smudge] Revised after a correction, committee comment, or late-night rethink
6 DOWN [Riot] Muscles you work at crunch time, even when no deadline is looming?
7 DOWN [Ink] Like deadpan humor, or a martini made with very little vermouth
8 ACROSS [Smudge] Drinks mixer behind the counter, also unofficial keeper of local secrets
9 ACROSS [Smudge] In a suspicious, underhanded manner, with the truth kept in dim light
10 ACROSS [Ink] Abbr. used to distinguish successive versions of a processor
11 ACROSS [Ink] Tiny CGS unit of work equal to a joule divided by 10,000,000

Midnight Broadsheet (11x11)

1 ACROSS [Riot] Diamond's cool nickname?
1 DOWN [Ink] Written acknowledgment of a debt
2 DOWN [Ink] Absolute, with no exceptions
3 DOWN [Smudge] In the manner of a newspaper's opinion page
4 ACROSS [Ink] In or to a foreign country
4 DOWN [Ink] Abraham's name before God's renaming
5 DOWN [Ink] Outer layer of a cereal grain
6 DOWN [Smudge] Singer Orbison's given name
7 ACROSS [Ink] Reusable code block called by a larger program
7 DOWN [Smudge] Of that kind or degree
8 DOWN [Ink] Archaic preposition meaning to
9 DOWN [Smudge] Legal refusal to prosecute a case
10 DOWN [Ink] Title character in Card's military science-fiction novel
11 ACROSS [Riot] A beam with a sunny disposition?
11 DOWN [Ink] Plant seeds in the ground
12 ACROSS [Ink] Boys' school beside the Thames, founded by Henry VI
13 ACROSS [Ink] Old spelling of an eight-carbon alkane
14 ACROSS [Ink] Yellow metal with chemical symbol Au
15 ACROSS [Smudge] Object-case pronoun for a person
16 ACROSS [Ink] Heraldic border running inside a shield
17 ACROSS [Smudge] More regretful than before
17 DOWN [Ink] Small pouch, anatomically or botanically
18 DOWN [Smudge] To a position atop something
19 DOWN [Ink] Deep, full-throated cry of a lion
20 ACROSS [Ink] Profound change of heart or spiritual conversion
20 DOWN [Ink] Millisecond, in brief
21 DOWN [Smudge] Fencing sword with a triangular blade
22 DOWN [Ink] Informal British name for the small screen
23 ACROSS [Ink] Wearing eyeglasses
24 DOWN [Ink] Several copies of the alphabet's twelfth letter
25 DOWN [Ink] Coloring agent for fabric or hair
26 ACROSS [Riot] Slippery customer from a river or sea?
27 ACROSS [Smudge] In spoken form rather than writing
28 ACROSS [Riot] A letter with a nautical sound?
29 ACROSS [Ink] Cause cells to rupture