An answer to your puzzle in another post that is locked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42498953
The "alternate" 5x5 word square that satisfies all the clues without using the words from the first grid is: S T R I P
C H I N A
R E G A L
A T O N E
P A R E R
Breakdown of the solution:Across STRIP (Remove the outer layer of, perhaps) — Counterpart to SCALD. CHINA (Region on a globe) — Counterpart to POLAR. REGAL (Like some movie theaters; e.g., Regal Cinemas) — Counterpart to ARTSY. ATONE (Command to a lawbreaker) — Counterpart to CEASE. PARER (Rhyme for Tom Lehrer /'lɛrər/) — Counterpart to ERROR. Down SCRAP (____yard; scrapyard is a common sci-fi setting) — Counterpart to SPACE. THETA (It goes something like this: Ꮎ) — Counterpart to CORER. RIGOR (Feature of liturgy, often; strictness/adherence to rubrics) — Counterpart to ALTAR. INANE (It's vacuous, in a sense) — Counterpart to LASSO. PALER (Fino is paler than Pedro Ximénez sherry) — Counterpart to DRYER. |