Ed. Note: last week’s puzzle contest is officially over—thanks to all who entered. Our winner this time is Jonathan Harkey, who got twenty-five out of thirty malapropisms. He gets a free subscription to the Review and a copy of Dylan’s new novel, Amateurs. Congratulations, Jonathan! Below, the solutions. 

Malapropian Answers:

1. Fractalshould be dactyl
2. Hobbesianshould be Hobson’s
3. Charmin should be Harmon
4. Finial should be filial
5. Consubstantial should be constabulary
6. Dobie Gillis should be Wade-Giles
7. Oscillation should be osculation
8. Cortisone should be corticene
9. Valetudinary should be valedictory
10. Sommelier should be Somali (A typo originally rendered “lapel pin” as “label pin,” so we also accepted “Label should be lapel” from those who responded before the typo was corrected.)
11. Gumbo should be Gambit
12. Gibbous should be glabrous
13. Elated should be alighted
14. Netscape should be netsuke
15. Stalagmite should be Stakhanovite
16. Ignoramus should be igneous
17. Organ should be orgone
18. Horticultural should be hortatory
19. Intransitive should be intransigent
20. Lutefisk should be lutenist
21. Cloaca should be cloque (or cloqué)
22. Vibraculum should be viaticum
23. Grenadine should be Grenadier
24. Purveyor should be purview
25. Fallibility should be Volatility
26. Laminal should be liminal
27. Serbia should be Cerberus
28. Metronomic should be matroynymic (or metronymic)
29. Linemen should be lineaments
30. Quadrupeds should be quadriceps

Dylan Hicks is a writer and musician. His second novel, Amateurs, is out now from Coffee House Press. He contributes a monthly puzzle to the Daily.