Sunday, November 05, 2017

NYT Crossword 11/05/17 (Sun.)

Cruciverbalist: Natan Last
Editor: Will Shortz

Solving time: 43:57

Puzzle uniqueness: "Lane Changes"

Answers are meaning one thing straight across, another that vectors diagonally in circled squares.

Words I hadn't known until now:
0


Trivia I didn't know:

EROS - "Freudian 'will to live'"
ELSA - "Italian novelist Morante"
LABATT - "Molson rival"
WAC - "W.W. II org. whose insignia featured Athena"
BRENDALEE - "Artist with the third most Top 40 hits in the 1960s, behind Elvis and the Beatles"
NERISSA - "Gratiano's love in 'The Merchant of Venice'"
TEMA - "Motif for Verdi or Monteverdi"
TUNA - "Skipjack, e.g."
MAGYARS -'Hungarians"
GIA - "Supermodel Carangi"
KARA - "Russia's ____ Sea (arm of the Arctic Ocean)"
EULER - "'Introduction to the Analysis of the Infinite' writer"
OREO - "Certain fro-yo add-in"

Junk Answers:

OHO - "'Well. well, well'!"
ESS - "Suffix with host"
ARN - "'Prince Valiant' son"
LTDS - "Erstwhile Fords"
PWNS - "Destroys. in gamer-speak"
WCS - "Heads overseas?"
ACR - "From l. to r."

Clever clues: 

ALLABOARD - "Railroad line?"
SOS - 'Line in the sand?"
MOWS - "Does course work?"
PAROLED - "Interrupted mid-sentence?"
EDDIED - "Went for a whirl"

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

ABACI - "Summers back in the day?"
TABARDS - "Armless coats that may bear coats of arms"

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