Acrostic No. 48

Monday, 28 September 2026

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Acrostic No. 48

A hidden sentence, revealed by the answers to its clues. The clock starts when you press start — not before.

How to play
  1. The board is a hidden sentence, one square per letter.
  2. Answer a clue and its letters appear in the sentence, wherever they belong.
  3. Or type a word you can read out of the sentence — it fills in where it stands, and completes the answers those letters belong to.
  4. Every letter belongs to exactly one answer, and nothing is marked wrong: a word that is not in the puzzle simply does not take.
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Fact
1957

Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes sealed two shower curtains together in 1957 and got a sheet of trapped air. They sold it as textured wallpaper, then as greenhouse insulation, and got nowhere both times — until IBM shipped its new 1401 computers padded with the stuff, and the third idea turned out to be the business.

Clues

Two ways in. Type an answer from the list above and its letters appear in the sentence. Or type a word you can guess from the sentence itself — it fills in where it stands, and completes the answers those letters belong to. Every letter of the sentence belongs to exactly one answer, and the small number on a tile is its position in the sentence. Hover a clue to see which tiles it owns.

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