Palimpsest solution

Tuesday 27 October 2026

This page gives the day away: the sentence, the answer, the bonus round and the wildcard. It is a record of a finished puzzle, not a place to play one. Today’s puzzle is here.

The line

Socrates inclined his head to the speaker and listened.

Plato, Phaedo

The answer

Listening as the first move in refutation.

one is heard

Bonus round

Theme: Sins

Wildcard

No word of a wildcard answer hides inside a single word of the line, and no clue is given.

race horse

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