A single word has been responsible for considerable consternation and bafflement among puzzle solvers recently. It is short, relatively common and, yes, it’s clean. Twice over the past two months the word has tantalisingly offered itself as an answer in our Polygon puzzle, only for those spoilsports at The Times to shake our heads and deny solvers another notch towards the next target score.
One reader, Suzie Webster, explained: “Quite often I find a word that is disallowed; for example, today I am not allowed to use ‘audio’. Please will someone come back to me and explain who or what sits in judgment?”
While Polygon is set by a “who”, the brilliant Roger Phillips, all the decisions on valid answers come back to a “what”,
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