Eight letters, starts with M

A test of local knowledge from the fall print edition. Play it here, or find out how you did.

By MATTHEW FRANK ● Puzzles ● October 29, 2026

The Pulp’s first crossword, from the fall print edition, which is hitting the streets now! It was made by this human after AI turned out to be really bad at making words cross. More on that — and on what else we will and won’t hand over to the robots — in this issue’s cover package.

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Author

Matthew Frank

Before launching The Pulp, Matthew Frank spent several years as the associate director for regional journalism at the O’Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West at the University of Montana, where he edited Mountain West News and served as the digital editor for a regional public radio collaborative. While at UM he also taught as an adjunct professor in the Journalism School’s graduate program and for the Wild Rockies Field Institute. Before that he was the Missoula Independent’s senior staff writer and associate editor.