What is unusual about the array of letters below? Can you think of a two-word phrase to explain it?

 

           WA D

            AC U 

CAPTAI N KANGAROO

            T E E 

            E

            R 

 

HINT to the explaining phrase:

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Answers:

Explaining phrase:

DISAPPEARING INK

 

The three words reading down - WAITER, ACNE, and DUKE - remain valid words if the letters INK of CAPTAIN KANGAROO are removed (disappear) - leaving WATER, ACE, and DUE.

 

Credit:

WSJ Crossword

February 1, 2024

Mike Shenk

VANISHING ACT