Sunday, November 05, 2017

NYT Crossword 11/03/17 (Fri.)

Cruciverbalists: Kameron Austin Collins and Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor: Will Shortz

Solving time: 24:50

Puzzle uniqueness: 0

Words I hadn't known until now: 0

Trivia I didn't know:

ABIE - "____ the Agent (old comic strip)"
ANNES - "Auntie _____ (pretzel chain)
GOOGLEHANGOUTS - "Platform for chatting"
CATT - "Suffragist Carrie Chapman ____"
ETONCAP - "English headwear with a short visor"
ALTOONA - "Penn State campus site"
OBERLIN - "Ohio school"
MIATA - "Car whose name means 'reward'"
ENTEBBE - "Ugandan city o Lake Victoria"
MARLOWE - "'Hero and Lander poet"

Junk Answers:

DSO - "Cross-shaped mil. award"
SIE - "You, overseas"
ABIE - (See above)
AWGEE - "'You're making me blush!'"
BRR - "Utterance made wile shaking"
ROM - "DVD attachment?"
RIAA - "Gold-certifying org."

Clever clues:

ELSE - "Word after who, what, where, when, why or how"
METEORS - "Things seen in a shower"
TITAN - "God father?"
TESTATE - "Willful?"

Obscure (i.e., really reaching) words: 

ENNEADS - "The Muses and others"

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