Sometimes the pedants are spot on and my Wordwit answers aren’t as unique as I think.
, if you’re reading this column in Sydney. Then what? Give me five more. While you think, let me confess something. Puzzle-makers aren’t always right. For every bonobo I offer, some clever sod will find a galago.
“I knocked over the puzzle in good time, thinking the monkey was galag/o. But then I was surprised to see a bonob/o appear the next day. I’d thought that it was a chimpanzee, not a monkey. Always enjoy your work, the Armchair Pedant.” David Plomley, alias DP of crossword fame, caught me out last month. Once more I deemed my answer unique: “What three-letter word – lacking a W – can become a different word when trading any of its letters with a W?” Answer: TOO, yielding woo/two/tow. But DP found a rival trio in SAY: way/swy/saw.
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