Second Guess

to know what words have the letters “act” in them, at the beginning, mid- dle, or end.

Press ✱ . Type act. Press ✱ . Your screen looks like the one below:

Press ENTER . The screen below appears:

You now have a list of all of the words containing the word “act”. Just ﬁnd one which contains the letters included on your letter rack and nail that triple-word-score space. Press the down arrow key to see the word list.

If you’re only interested in words that begin with “act”, you’d type act✱. If you only want words that end with “act”, you’d type ✱act.

Occasionally you may realize you’ve ﬁlled in a word in a puzzle incorrectly. The word may not match the clue, or the word may make it impossible to ﬁll in appropriate words going the other way. At least one letter of what you put into the puzzle must be wrong, but you don’t know which letter. What to do?

Suppose you’ve put the word “cadger” into the puzzle space. Cadger is a perfectly good word, but it doesn’t seem to match the clue, “stern friend of Toad in ‘Wind in the Willows’.”

Type in cadger. Press SECOND-GUESS . Your screen looks like the one be- low:

Notice that the ﬁrst letter of the word from the above screen is in lower