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Canuckle Classic hints for · #1399

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1 word. Every reveal is your choice.

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The answer

What kind of word
Wiktionary lists it as a noun.

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What it means
“A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.”

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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How it ends
Where the vowels sit
The vowels are the third and fourth letters.

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How it starts
Reveal the answer
PLAIT

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For PLAIT, the pattern _L_I_ fixes positions 2 and 4. It matches 44 of 14757 words in our independent five-letter dictionary: ALBID, ALCID, ALGID, ALGIN, ALKIE, ALKIN, ALLIN, ALLIS ….

7 dictionary words differ at exactly one position: PLAID, PLAIG, PLAIN, PLANT, PLAST, PLATT, PLOIT. Check that differing position before treating a familiar spelling as the solution.

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Also on March 13, 2026

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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: c62d29575bf1.

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