history teacher Merriam -Webster lists “tar BA(4)” as an open-compound phrase (two words) and describes it as “sometimes offensive”.  <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com" target="_blank">https://www.merriam-webster.com</a>/Wiktionary lists it as both open-compound and closed-compound (one word), but describes both as “derogatory ethnic slur”.  <a href="https://www.wiktionary.org" target="_blank">https://www.wiktionary.org</a>/Doubtful that NYT would allow this term in any of their word games, in my opinion.

history teacher Merriam -Webster lists “tar BA(4)” as an open-compound phrase (two words) and describes it as “sometimes offensive”.  <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com" target="_blank">https://www.merriam-webster.com</a>/Wiktionary lists it as both open-compound and closed-compound (one word), but describes both as “derogatory ethnic slur”.  <a href="https://www.wiktionary.org" target="_blank">https://www.wiktionary.org</a>/Doubtful that NYT would allow this term in any of their word games, in my opinion.

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