Friday, November 10, 2017

NYT Crossword 11/07/17 (Tue.)

Cruciverbalist: Greg Poulos
Edited by: Will Shortz

Solving time: 09:52

Puzzle uniqueness: 

Answer WORDOFTHEYEAR clue to seven answers that were Annual American Dialect Society selections. Example: DUMPSTERFIRE.

Words I hadn't known until now: 0

Trivia I didn't know:

KEW - "London's ___ Gardens"
AHMAD - "Jazz pianist Jamal"
ALI - "Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Da ___ G Show'"
NADIA - "Foreign exchange student in 'American Pie'"
DAL - "Lentil dish at an Indian restaurant"

Junk Answers: 

ISM - "Belief, informally"
UIE - "Something a driver may 'hang'"
INO - "Particle physics suffix"
ZSA - "When doubled, a Gabor sister"
RSTU - "Q-V connection"
ESL - "Subj. for U.S. citizens-to-be"

Clever clues: 0

Obscure (i.e., really reaching) words: 0

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