Daily Recap: Friday, September 18, 2026

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Here is the solved chain from the Word Chains daily puzzle for September 18, 2026. It had 6 words and 5 links, starting with CAKE and ending with GAS. Below, each pair of neighboring words is shown with the phrase it forms and what that phrase means.

The Complete Chain

CAKEWALKFREEPRESSPASSGAS

Every Link Explained

  1. CAKE+WALK

    cake walk

    A type of dance originating in the United States in the 19th century.

  2. WALK+FREE

    walk free

    (transitive, idiomatic) To go unpunished; to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.

  3. FREE+PRESS

    free press

    Alternative form of freedom of the press [The right of citizens or the media to print, or otherwise disseminate, speech, ideas and opinions without fear or harm of prosecution.]

  4. PRESS+PASS

    press pass

    (journalism) A card or document which grants some type of special privilege to journalists.

  5. PASS+GAS

    pass gas

    (euphemistic) to flatulate

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