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Word Ladder 2

· By Sendhil Revuluri · Published 2023-10-31T23:59:53.390Z

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Second attempt at a word ladder — hope you enjoy, and again, would love to hear any feedback. (Photo by Kaiwen Sun on Unsplash.) Clue for 8A totally stolen from @SlappyMcGee's mini.
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  • apopple 🤓2:06 · 2023-11-01T15:52:44.395Z
    Loved this one! Not a word ladder constructor myself but I think that changing the same letter twice in a row (like rungs 18 and 19) is generally taboo. Not sure if that's a solid rule or anything and I enjoyed the ladder regardless :)
    • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2023-11-02T00:14:19.812Z
      Thank you! And great point. I should have left 18A on the cutting room floor… I'll see if I can do that now!
    • Randotheo 🤓3:03 · 2023-11-01T23:22:17.518Z
      Tricky! (In a good way!) I enjoyed 8A quite a bit. The circles where letters changed was very helpful when I occasionally needed to go out of order.
      • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2023-11-02T00:15:50.057Z
        Thank you! The clue for 8A was totally stolen from someone who recently used a similar clue for the franc. Apologies for not crediting appropriately… and now I can't find it. So if you know who I took this from, please let me know!
      • Kent D 🤓1:27 · 2023-11-02T16:51:10.744Z
        Another fun ladder! One thing I noted is on 17 it should be Crosshare.ORG not .COM 😀
        • Sendhil Revuluri constructor · 2023-11-02T21:27:54.436Z
          Thanks so much for the catch — fixing now!
        1A
        One of the five elements (Wu Xing) in Chinese cosmology
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        4
        5
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        21
        Across
        1. 1A
          One of the five elements (Wu Xing) in Chinese cosmology
        2. 5A
          Building block of some ladders (like this one), rather than 1A
        3. 6A
          Longtime Us Weekly feature "Who ____ It Best?"
        4. 7A
          Epic TV series "The ____" rated best of the century by a BBC critics' poll
        5. 8A
          Stale Italian bread (plural)
        6. 9A
          Shortest path between two points (at least in a Euclidean plane)
        7. 10A
          Of high quality
        8. 11A
          Iconic features of Cadillacs, especially from 1948 to 1964
        9. 12A
          Supporters of an athletic team, like the Cubs, Cavs, or Kings
        10. 13A
          Significant subset of lipids
        11. 14A
          Largest muscles on the human back, for short
        12. 15A
          After the expected time
        13. 16A
          Low in fat, sugar, functionality, or seriousness, commercially
        14. 17A
          Crosshare.org, or another place on the World Wide Web
        15. 18A
          Function that is a building block for a Fourier series expansion
        16. 19A
          Black or white, in chess
        17. 20A
          French acronym for the International Chess Federation
        18. 21A
          One of the five elements (Wu Xing) in Chinese cosmology
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        3. 3D
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        4. 4D
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