I did a search around the time you first inquired about the meaning of this 
word. The only thing that came up that  seemed coherent but made no sense to me 
in particular had to do with astrology. And signs.   I couldn't relate it to 
anything so I didn't pass it on.

Deidre


> On Aug 11, 2018, at 10:15 PM, Jewel <jewelbla...@kinect.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> A little time ago, I asked a question on this list re a word I had read as 
> one of the clues in an 
> April 2013 puzzle in Seven Little Words.  The word was astrovolcano.
> I received only one reply and that was from Bill Garrick who suggested that, 
> perhapsan astrovolcano 
> was a burst of light from outer space: akin to  the Arora Borealis/Australis: 
>  a very good 
> suggestion but, I think, one, for all its merrits,  was wrong.
> Upon further research, it seems to me that BlueOx who are, I believe, the 
> developers of the game, 
> made it up as I cannot find that actual word in Google.  The closest I can 
> get is stratavolcano, the 
> type of volcano that was, and, I think may still be, playing merry hell in 
> Hawaii!
> BTW:  the solution to the astrovolcano clue is Alaska's Katmai, a nature 
> reserve and bear/bison 
> preservation area.
> 
>            Jewel 
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