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Chaosword #59: 28 Oct 2026

No. 5928 Oct 2026

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Morning Slip (5x5)

1 ACROSS [Ink] Rear portion of something
1 DOWN [Ink] Mishandle a job badly
2 DOWN [Ink] Banded quartz used in jewelry
3 DOWN [Ink] Perfume with fragrant smoke
4 DOWN [Smudge] Small barrel, usually found holding beer
5 ACROSS [Ink] S-shaped curve in architecture
6 ACROSS [Smudge] Old term for a forked pole
6 DOWN [Riot] Toothed cutter with a bite?
7 ACROSS [Ink] Deeds, or parts of a play
8 ACROSS [Ink] Cry of delight on a roller coaster

Evening Tabloid (7x7)

1 ACROSS [Smudge] Take small springing steps, like a child avoiding puddles
1 DOWN [Smudge] With enough force to make the rain sound serious
2 DOWN [Ink] Person being formally admitted to a religious office
3 DOWN [Smudge] A first look before the main event
4 ACROSS [Ink] Make a mistake that could cause a MORNING DOWN-1
5 ACROSS [Smudge] The scholarly world, with its own customs and ranks
5 DOWN [Smudge] Getting there, in brief, on a timetable
6 DOWN [Riot] Letter whose name sounds like open water?
7 DOWN [Smudge] Grown male people, considered as a group
8 DOWN [Ink] Work unit equal to a ten-millionth of a joule
9 ACROSS [Riot] One who restores life, read the same either way?
10 ACROSS [Smudge] Holding a horse in check with leather straps
11 ACROSS [Ink] Sheltered side of a hill or vessel
12 ACROSS [Smudge] Conifer whose seeds are poisonous

Midnight Broadsheet (11x11)

1 ACROSS [Riot] A grand narrative poem, the sort of thing that takes a heroic amount of time?
1 DOWN [Ink] Plural name for the letter N, in traditional grammatical terminology
2 DOWN [Smudge] Elected official, in informal shorthand used by journalists
3 DOWN [Riot] Numeral that follows zero and precedes two, holding the middle spot?
4 DOWN [Riot] Drowsy enough to make a watch feel like a long night at sea?
5 ACROSS [Riot] Green sea lettuce, proving salad can drift in with the tide?
5 DOWN [Smudge] Feeling poorly, though the forecast itself is perfectly serviceable
6 DOWN [Ink] A meadow, especially one traditionally kept for making hay
7 DOWN [Smudge] Worth, in compact accounting shorthand used beside a figure
8 DOWN [Riot] Biblical vessel with a famously crowded passenger list?
9 ACROSS [Smudge] Not progressing in a straight sequence, like a plot with a taste for detours
10 DOWN [Ink] Latin for “himself” or “itself,” used to add emphasis
11 ACROSS [Riot] Move about while unconscious, giving “going nowhere” a strange itinerary?
12 ACROSS [Ink] Compass point halfway between east and southeast, for short
13 ACROSS [Ink] An incorrectly written word, despite the writer’s best intentions
13 DOWN [Riot] Fail to catch a departing bus, or ERR by overlooking it?
14 DOWN [Ink] Latin for “again,” in a repeated instruction
15 DOWN [Smudge] Relating to a copyist, whose job was to make one original last
16 DOWN [Ink] Cryptographic algorithm family, in abbreviated form
17 DOWN [Riot] Trim BACK the top of a plant, giving it a haircut without scissors?
18 DOWN [Ink] Compound sharing a molecular formula with another but differing in structure
19 DOWN [Riot] Hawaiian goose, a bird whose name sounds like a hesitant answer?
20 DOWN [Smudge] Became larger or older, as a child does without filing a request
21 ACROSS [Riot] Irritating to the skin, as though your sweater had a personal grievance?
22 ACROSS [Smudge] One who fails to win, according to a verdict with no appeal
23 ACROSS [Ink] Plural of serum, especially in medical usage
24 ACROSS [Ink] Southern cornbread, baked as a simple round loaf
25 ACROSS [Smudge] South Asian honorific placed before a person’s name, a small title with ceremony
26 ACROSS [Ink] Possessed or experienced at an earlier time
26 DOWN [Smudge] Position of command, or the place where a vessel gets its directions
27 DOWN [Riot] Succulent valued for the soothing gel inside its fleshy leaves?
28 DOWN [Riot] Celebrated female singer, or a star who expects the room to orbit her?
29 ACROSS [Riot] A kitten’s small cry, or a cat’s contribution to the evening forecast?
30 ACROSS [Smudge] The straightest route to a destination, as if urgency chose the path
31 DOWN [Ink] Biblical priest who tutored the young Samuel
32 DOWN [Riot] Familiar short form of Edward, despite not looking like its source?
33 ACROSS [Smudge] Widespread or covering every part, with no corner left out
34 ACROSS [Ink] Tart citrus drink made with juice, water, and sugar