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Chaosword #62: 31 Oct 2026

No. 6231 Oct 2026

Roaming Birds, Family Signs

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Morning Slip (5x5)

1 ACROSS [Ink] Singer and pianist ___ King Cole
1 DOWN [Riot] Wanderer who turns into Matt's surname when reversed?
2 DOWN [Ink] Electrode at which oxidation takes place
3 DOWN [Smudge] Group emblem, perhaps carved in wood
4 ACROSS [Ink] Surname of Yoko, the artist married to Lennon
5 ACROSS [Ink] Show feeling, perhaps with theatrical excess
5 DOWN [Riot] Female sheep that reads the same coming and going?
6 DOWN [Smudge] Historical period, with its own fashions and assumptions
7 ACROSS [Smudge] Long-legged bird of shallow water, perhaps
8 ACROSS [Ink] Tissue swelling caused by excess fluid

Evening Tabloid (7x7)

1 ACROSS [Ink] Circular in shape, with no corners
1 DOWN [Smudge] Spinning device, unchanged when read from either end
2 DOWN [Ink] Possessive word for MORNING ACROSS-1 and me
3 DOWN [Ink] Idealistic to the point of imagining a perfect society
4 DOWN [Ink] Hawaiian goose, Hawaii's state bird
5 DOWN [Riot] Sketch, or become WARD when backed up?
6 ACROSS [Smudge] Farther from the center, as the ring beyond the bull's-eye
7 ACROSS [Ink] Mineral processed into soda ash
8 ACROSS [Ink] Variant spelling of the title for a former Persian ruler
8 DOWN [Ink] Pierce with a pointed weapon
9 DOWN [Ink] Annual award for science fiction and fantasy literature
10 ACROSS [Ink] Church bench, often in a long row
11 ACROSS [Ink] Musical direction meaning all together
12 DOWN [Ink] Italian preposition meaning between or among
13 ACROSS [Ink] Public gathering place in ancient Greece
14 ACROSS [Ink] East African breed of beef cattle

Midnight Broadsheet (11x11)

1 ACROSS [Ink] Underneath, in position
1 DOWN [Riot] What a ship may do, or a polite guest?
2 DOWN [Ink] Historical period, per MORNING DOWN-6
3 DOWN [Ink] Open framework of crossing strips
4 DOWN [Riot] German emperor, or a name reading identically backward?
5 DOWN [Ink] London district with Parliament
6 ACROSS [Ink] Take back, as a statement
6 DOWN [Ink] Forbidden by the rules
7 DOWN [Ink] African river flowing north
8 DOWN [Smudge] Having a martial bearing
9 DOWN [Ink] Lincoln, familiarly
10 DOWN [Riot] Longing, or Japanese currency?
11 ACROSS [Ink] Speak in a formal manner
12 ACROSS [Ink] Mythic mother punished by Apollo and Artemis
13 ACROSS [Ink] Units measuring power
14 ACROSS [Ink] Woody of Annie Hall
15 ACROSS [Ink] Added up, in an accountant's column
16 DOWN [Ink] Helpers to an official
17 ACROSS [Ink] French word for a male friend
17 DOWN [Ink] Aviation abbreviation for actual time of arrival
18 DOWN [Ink] Former Soviet space station
19 ACROSS [Ink] One thousandth of an inch
20 ACROSS [Ink] Possessive form of it
21 DOWN [Smudge] Defunct airline, for short
22 DOWN [Ink] Former Japanese monetary unit
23 ACROSS [Ink] Involuntary twitch
24 ACROSS [Ink] Constructed language derived from Esperanto
25 ACROSS [Ink] Female sheep, as MORNING DOWN-5
26 ACROSS [Ink] Plural present-tense form of be
27 ACROSS [Smudge] Recent, rather than old
28 ACROSS [Ink] Moved swiftly, in the past
29 ACROSS [Riot] Toast someone's health, in old usage?
30 DOWN [Ink] Spanish word meaning art
31 DOWN [Ink] Country east of Iraq
32 ACROSS [Ink] End a process prematurely
32 DOWN [Smudge] Telecom giant, for short
33 DOWN [Ink] Constricting snake
34 ACROSS [Ink] Actress Ekland's given name
35 DOWN [Ink] Electron microscope, in brief
36 DOWN [Ink] Make an effort at something
37 ACROSS [Ink] Rich, layered cake
38 ACROSS [Smudge] One living near a lake
39 ACROSS [Ink] One who accepts an offer
40 ACROSS [Ink] Opponent or hostile force