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Fifty six words place O second and S third, and half of them take an E straight after.
E takes the fourth box in twenty eight of the fifty six, fifty percent. ROSES, DOSES, HOSED and POSER all run through it.
COSTS, HOSTS and POSTS all close the same way, with COSTA and HOSTA alongside them. S and T take the fourth box in fifteen of the fifty six.
That gives the page two clean halves. Either the fourth letter is E and the word is a verb form, or it is S or T and the word is a noun.
BOSSY, FOSSA, FOSSE, LOSSY and MOSSY all repeat the S, easy to miss because the pattern already gives you one. Eight of the fifty six carry a repeated letter.
It is worth testing deliberately. Where S already sits in the third box, a second S is the kind of thing you stop looking for.
S closes fourteen of the fifty six and Y closes ten, carrying most of the last box.
ROSES tests the R and E cleanly. POSTS uses the S twice, spending part of the guess on a letter the pattern already gave you.
The socket on a golf club head where the shaft joins it. It is equipment vocabulary rather than general English.
A worthless or good for nothing person, an archaic noun. It sits one letter from HOSEL and means something entirely different.
A red dye used to stain biological samples for microscopy. It is the one entry opening with a vowel.
Not at all. A costa is a rib or ridge, and a hosta is a shade loving garden plant.