Thursday, November 16, 2017

NYT Crossword 11/16/17 (Thu.)

Cruciverbalist: Alex Eylar
Editor: Will Shortz

Solving time: 17:42

Puzzle uniqueness:

I'll let the Rex Parker site explain it: "Now "See" this! — clues with answers describe the clues themselves..." Example: AWILDGOOSECHASE clue is "See 66-Across" where there is no 66-Across in the puzzle)

Words I hadn't known until now: 

RECURSION - "See 25-Across" (which is where this answer resides,...whatever...)

Trivia I didn't know: 

ROWE - "Host Mike of 'Dirty Jobs' and 'Somebody's Gotta Do It'" (Never watched either show)
MARIO - "Celeb chef Batali"

Junk answers:

EMO - "Kind of look with bangs and eye shadow"
SSN - "Application figure"
PSST - "Alternative to an elbow, maybe"

Clever clues: 

SPACE - "What ' ' contains"
ICON - "Click it"
ABUT - "Be against"
THE - "Not just any old"
SET - "22+ pages of the Oxford English Dictionary"
BUGLE - "Wake-up call?"

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

TAUTOLOGY - "See 58-Across" (Where the clue is "See 17-Across," the spot the answer is)
RECURSION - (See above)

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