[Solution] Back and Forth – 20 March 2023

Based on the title or the flavor text (cluing TACOCAT), or just from solving a few of the clues, solvers will notice that all the answers to this puzzle’s clues are palindromes, or words that read the same forwards and backwards. The answers are:

  • Aoxomoxoa
  • Mom
  • Ere
  • Racecar
  • Level
  • Pep
  • Nauruan
  • Omo
  • Bib
  • Solos
  • Sis
  • Tot
  • Minim

Each of these palindromes is an odd number of letters in length, with a single unrepeated letter in the middle. Reading each of these middle letters in order gives MORE VERMILLION, which is a clue phrase cluing another palindrome, REDDER.