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The solution to last issue’s Rasmus Rask Parallel Puzzle XIX is given here. The following puzzlemeisters have achieved everlasting glory!

Vincent Fish • Arcadia Arcadopouli • Susanne Løvstrøm

The solutions to last issue’s puzzle, Mix & Match ‖‖‖, are also provided here. The nine 9-letter words from the first puzzle are: shorthand, Orwellian, coiffeurs, inventory, operettas, linearity, onanistic, guncotton, yodelling; and the three additional words are: sociology, reference, narration. For the second puzzle, the nine words are: Provençal, runically, outbabble, livraison, escallops, pentalpha, sibilator, insolvent, slangster; and the three additional words are: prolepsis, vibration, allophone.

The following puzzlemeisters have earned the glory that comes with solving this puzzle:

Vincent Fish • Thorsten Schröter • Khugan Chan • Arcadia Arcadopouli

The solutions to last issue’s Phonetic Drop Quote III is: /ðə ɛtəmɑlədʒɪst faɪndz ðə dɛdəst wɜɹdz tu hæv bɪn wʌns ə bɹɪljənt pɪktʃɚ. læŋɡwɪdʒ ɪz fɑsl̩ poʊətɹi./ (“The etymologist finds the deadest words to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.”).

These brilliant puzzle-solvers have also achieved everlasting glory:

Vincent Fish • Arcadia Arcadopouli • Zeynəb Məmmədova

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Finally, here is the solution to the Rasmus Rask Zigzag Puzzle XX from this issue.

At the time of publication, we have no idea who will actually solve it, but we’re going to go ahead and preëmptively award everlasting glory to these two puzzlemeisters because, while past performance is no guarantee of future results, it’s often the basis for a pretty good guess:

Vincent Fish • Arcadia Arcadopouli

So long, puzzlers—and thanks for all the fish fun times!


Change A Little, Change A Lot Challenge—Example Word Pairs—The SpecGram Überlinguistaffen & Ulfheðnar ber Sarkur
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