Acrostic No. 83

Monday, 2 November 2026

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Acrostic No. 83

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

There was teaching at Oxford by 1096, and it grew fast after 1167, when Henry II stopped English students going to Paris. The Aztecs founded Tenochtitlan, on an island in Lake Texcoco, in 1325. It grew into one of the largest cities in the world, and Mexico City now stands on the same spot.

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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