Mesomorph?

[Ozzyjack]

In quite a lot of detective shows, I have heard the statement "I don't believe in coincidences"

Perhaps the Target setter is also a Chihuahua addict like the rest of us.

[Alan W]

It will be interesting to see what they give in the answers tomorrow - will they list both mesomorph and sophomore, or only one, and if so which one? Not that I would take that puzzle as a reliable guide to suitable seed words.

[guyd]

I was holding back on making the same observation for fear of being called a spoiler!

It cannot be a coincidence - in decades of playing the Target game in what are now the Peter Costello Bugles in Melb and Sydney, I cannot recall mesomorph ever appearing beforehand.

Guy

[yelnats]

As it is only a 9 letter puzzle sophomore won't be possible as there are only 2 x o.

And I have wondered about them using Chi as a source. There was one day I couldn't enter the Age puzzle in user generated as it was in the previous afternoon  Chi.

[Alan W]

As it is only a 9 letter puzzle sophomore won't be possible as there are only 2 x o.

Quite so. I forgot that it was a 7 by many Chi that had the two words, so I was thinking the letters were exactly the same.

[Calilasseia]

I've been aware for some time, of the use of the word mesomorph as a body type descriptor, as seen here ...

Never heard it used in an undergraduate year context at all ...