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Canuckle Classic hints for · #1318

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The answer

What kind of word
Wiktionary lists it as a noun.

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What it means
“A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.”

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 A.

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How it starts
How it ends
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PSALM

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Compare the letters after solving

For PSALM, the pattern _S__M fixes positions 2 and 5. It matches 3 of 14757 words in our independent five-letter dictionary: ASSAM, ASWIM, PSALM.

No other word in this dictionary differs from this answer at just one position.

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Also on December 22, 2025

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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: e5838effd57c.

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