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Is it gecko that's controversial, or butch? I think butch can be a pejorative for a lesbian.
I think I did see a headline scroll by a couple days ago that mentioned fetus being removed from the word list. If so, we should probably be prepared for more. Just a sign of the current fear of offending someone, though I'm not sure why fetus would be offensive. Rumor has it we've all been one. 
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Correct - the replacement was GECKO. When I was a lad, "butch" referred to a very short haircut for boys (aka Crew Cut or Buzz Cut). That's the cut my parents chose for me. 
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Me too (no #). That's the haircut I sported (cut by my mother) until I could afford to go to a barber shop and pay for my own. Nature has nearly returned me to this state. 
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Craig Robbins wrote: NYT changed their puzzles so the answers wouldn't be a controversial word.
So that leaves approximately 11 words that can be used.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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11!? Are you trying to offend people!?  
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Arg! I forgot about all the Primonumerophobics! 
Non-Will Smith-like Apology: “I would like to publicly apologize to you, Chris Sander. I was out of line and I was wrong. I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be. There is no place for violence using the number 11 in a world of love and kindness.”
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
modified 11-May-22 17:48pm.
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I can't say why, but I still feel strangely offended somehow 
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My wife and I have been doing them now for the last 2 weeks or so, she on an iPad and myself on my phone, both directly from NYT webpage. I haven't seen any alternate solutions but then we always do them at around the same time each day.
From the 'original' solutions you mentioned, it appears that someone at NYT has an axe to grind.
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Browser refresh can get the updated word. On my iPhone I did not do a refresh and got FETUS in a single "guess".
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Today I got 'farce' 
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It may be they changed "FETUS" since that is a (broadly) American spelling, and they have obviously gone global now, so maybe they're avoiding words that British players wouldn't get... (I saw a very lengthy discussion only a couple of days ago about the correct / cross-pond / original spelling of foetus / fetus / fœtus).
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They had "homer" a few days ago.
I only know Homer (as in the Greek tragedy or the main character in The Simpsons).
I didn't think homer would be a word as it's really a name, but it was really the only thing that sounded like it might be the solution.
Had to look it up and apparently it's an American word for an American game mostly played by Americans (homerun, but without the "un") 
Either that or a carrier pigeon.
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It can also mean a fanatic sports team fan who lives, breaths and bleeds for the home team that can do no wrong. (Dang refs got it in for us).
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Homer for homerun is already informal, I think homer for sports fan is informal informal.
That meaning isn't mentioned in online dictionaries anyway 
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Quote: I think homer for sports fan is informal informal.
No argument there and it might be a colloqialism local to where I lived when I would hear it which was the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area of Minnesota (a bunch of homers if there ever were any). 
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It's also a unit of measure used in Biblical times.
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Wow, apparently that's the same word in Dutch.
Never heard of it.
Found it on Wikipedia, but online dictionaries don't mention it.
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haha yes, that one had me stumped for a while. I'd only got one more attempt, I had ?OMER but only letters like M, X, Z .. and H left. I couldn't bring myself to believe the NYT were accepting names as valid dictionary words. I tried H hoping I would be wrong... 
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I failed on HOMER but it told me that proper names are possible. Some time ago the answer was something like COLOR which told me that US spellings are possible, which is not surprising.
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It's all US spelling, isn't it?
After all, it's from New York Times, not London Times 
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Yeah, same here
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Dished out, left short assembly (8)
Dished CONC AVE
out (around)
left short L
assembly
CONCLAVE
I'll try a hard one tomorrow, methinks ... 
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Time zone trap again today - I had to reinstall one of our vendor's apps this morning first thing - by the time I got to looking for the CCC you had posted the solution. (Not sure I would have figured out the "left short" clue, even though it seems obvious now that you explained it!  )
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