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Canuckle Classic hints for · #360

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The answer

What kind of word
Wiktionary lists it as a noun.

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What it means
“A unit of weight in various measurement systems.”

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

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The middle letter
The middle letter is U.

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How it starts
How it ends
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POUND

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Compare the letters after solving

For POUND, the pattern __U_D fixes positions 3 and 5. It matches 41 of 14757 words in our independent five-letter dictionary: AGUED, BLUED, BLUID, BOUND, BOURD, CAULD, CLUED, COULD ….

10 dictionary words differ at exactly one position: BOUND, FOUND, HOUND, LOUND, MOUND, POIND, POWND, ROUND …. Check that differing position before treating a familiar spelling as the solution.

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Also on May 9, 2023

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Recorded from the existing verified source adapter. Source retrieved .

The resumed schedule starts at number 143 on 4 October 2022. Both document ID and the publisher's index must match. Earlier paused-era puzzles are outside this contract.

Letter clues and worked solving examples are deterministic calculations. Record revision: 66f7f8e02164.

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