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Puzzle Description:
RAT ART TAR A rare one in which each letter takes its turn in the first position.
#1: Joanne Firla (JoFirla) on Aug 31, 2020
clever#2: Bill Eisenmann (Bullet) on Sep 1, 2020 [HINT] [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#3: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Sep 1, 2020
And almost a palindrome.#4: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Sep 1, 2020
If the artwork was made of raw rat meat it would be rat tartar art. It's the kind of art my cats would find very interesting.
Fun to solve. Seldom understand anagrams.#5: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Sep 5, 2020 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#6: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Sep 5, 2020
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.#7: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Sep 5, 2020 [SPOILER]
Brian, I was going to point out that when you talk of meat, the french root is used, like#8: Brash Ataom (BRASH) on Sep 13, 2020
cow = germanic and beef = french
pig = germanic and pork = french
But as it turns out, french for "rat" is ... "rat"
Oh, and in German Rat is a false cognate with English. It means "people or folk" thus Ratskeller, a bar, (often underground, since Keller is a true cognate of "cellar") and of course the cross-lingually politically ironic, "Rathaus" meaning City Hall....
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