While the current game has been dormant in an unsolved status for over a year, we need not worry since ICOT had the great foresight to build in the answer into the post. So even if ICOT’s memory would no longer serve to recall the word after this long a pause, we are not out of luck.
So adding in the following yet unfilled guesses to those previously filled in:
N by oomis1105 (last year)
S by simchallthetime (last year)
O by Tums (last year)
T by brotherofurs (today)
We have:
_ O N _ _ A T _ L A T _ O N S
(Sorry, can’t do the fancy ASCII graphics.)
This must have been the longest game pause time in CR history. Carry on.