The entries are in.

a)The finely ground particulate added to natural gas to give it a recognizable odor.

b)small curved blade for hollowing out the bowls of carved spoons (similar to scorp, used for carving chair seats, but smaller.)

c)the name of an old magazine, since replaced by New Sweek.

d)Chastity. cf swaik

e)sweek: us gang slang, to get lunch money from others by intimidation. Ex: song by rapper Q-bop-a-gurula - sweek the geek and drop the dime, toby bitch.

f) the moving stick in a bird trap

g)(onomatopoeia) the sound of certain species of bat whose cry is audible to humans.

As a reformed Hurried Hogmaster who has suffered the slings and arrows of the mobs of frustrated would-be submitters, allow me to step in and say right off the bat that the current exchange rate is such that a Canadian sennight is equal to five U.S. days, hence the opening of the voting phase today.

That said I have no earthly idea what sweek is, so I'm going to have to guess. Matching the unknown sweek with the subject I am least familiar with, I cast my vote for D.

Going with b) and hoping e) is entirely fictional.

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... the current exchange rate is such that a Canadian sennight is equal to five U.S. days, hence the opening of the voting phase today.

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I thought it was just me, although my thoughts have been elsewhere.

B, D, and F are the onliest ones that attract me.

B) Scorp sounds as made up as sweek. Whether that's a plus or minus is beyond me right now.

D) This one has the advantage of being terse.

F) What the F. That's what I'm going with. F