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Also, we would really appreciate it if you could prominently refer to it as an 'eHit'.
Having been doing daily crosswords for a few months, ERAS has come up like, ten times.
I'm having a mental stronk trying to figure out what the words on the bottom say
Crosswords have clues going across and down.
The words just use common letters so they're things puzzle creators wish were real words. They're not currently words.
Ahem:
aerae: Latin, genitive/dative singular of aera
eni: Urhobo for 'elephant'
oreta: Latin, taxonomic genus within the family Drepanidae.
aroe: Rōmaji transcription of アロエ
oine: Danish, indefinite plural of øie
aen: Rōmaji transcription of あえん
enta: French, third-person singular past historic of enter
aete: Rōmaji transcription of あえて
Those are all unacceptable crossword clues
Taylor 2025 effort would be an acceptable crossword clue
oine is most definitely not Danish for eyes. That would be øjne, plural of øje.
What does 'enter' even mean in French?
In means nothing. The french for enter is "entrer"
That’s why they use “oboe” so often eh
Or they could push for the sort of crosswords with more black squares (very common here in Britain) that rarely have anything bigger than a 1x1 intersection. There are other ways to challenge the solver.
I only do the cryptics myself - I like that you can be confident you have the right answer without waiting for the crossers to check your guess.
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