Canuckle · Classic
Canuckle Classic hints for · #855
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Canadian connection clue
A Canadian fundraising runner provides the connection.
Sources (may reveal the answer)
Supporting source 1 · Wikipedia contributors, “Terry Fox”, linked revision · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original concise paraphrase of contributor-written definitions or factual prose. Puzzle connections and clue wording are independently authored. Adapted text is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. No third-party quotations, photographs, audio or publisher hint prose are reused.
Stronger clue
Think of Fox’s first name and the Marathon of Hope he began in 1980.
Sources (may reveal the answer)
Supporting source 1 · Wikipedia contributors, “Terry Fox”, linked revision · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original concise paraphrase of contributor-written definitions or factual prose. Puzzle connections and clue wording are independently authored. Adapted text is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. No third-party quotations, photographs, audio or publisher hint prose are reused.
Why this answer fits
TERRY is the familiar first name of Terry Fox, the Canadian athlete who began the Marathon of Hope in 1980 to raise money for cancer research. That named person supplies a supported Canadian association for the answer.
Supporting source 1 · Wikipedia contributors, “Terry Fox”, linked revision · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original concise paraphrase of contributor-written definitions or factual prose. Puzzle connections and clue wording are independently authored. Adapted text is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. No third-party quotations, photographs, audio or publisher hint prose are reused.
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Compare the letters after solving
For TERRY, the pattern T__R_ fixes positions 1 and 4. It matches 44 of 14757 words in our independent five-letter dictionary: TAHRS, TAIRA, TARRE, TARRY, TAYRA, TEARS, TEARY, TEERS ….
14 dictionary words differ at exactly one position: BERRY, DERRY, FERRY, HERRY, JERRY, KERRY, MERRY, PERRY …. Check that differing position before treating a familiar spelling as the solution.
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Also on September 15, 2024
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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.
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