CROSSWORD SOLVER PUZZLE:
[ NEOLOGISMS COINED ON “THE SIMPSONS”] 
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How badass would it be to not only coin a word, but have it enter the lexicon? I’ll tell you right now, it would be awesome from a crossword construction standpoint. It’d be life-saving. Say you’re stuck in a corner, no letter will go in that one square that would allow you to pull off a mind-scrambling 6×8 corner. No currently existing word that is. Nothing left to do but coin a word. The letters “DENOSE” kind of sort of finishes that corner, so be it. Boom. Give it a defintion: “the fear one has about being called out as a charlatan, especially in the field wherein you’re supposed to be an expert in.” Works for me. Hit up Twitter and start the #denose hashtag. IM my buddy Ben Zimmer to have him write a couple essays about the word, then bribe him heavily so it gets at least honorable mention in “word of the year” discussions. Game, set, match. New word coined and 6×8 corner pulled off! If only life worked like this.

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