Editor: Will Shortz
Solving time: 9:51
Puzzle uniqueness:
The entire puzzle consisted of seven letters - A, E, I, L, R, S, T. In addition, there were four anagrams of the letters within the puzzle. Again, for the trivia minded, I'll let them figure it out.
Words I hadn't known until now:
ASSAI - "Very, in music" (Really?)
Trivia I didn't know:
ARIA - "Mozart's 'Se vuol ballare,' for one" (Though with four letters easily deduced)
ALTAIR - "Brightest 1-Down (STAR) in Aquila" (Knew the star, didn't know it was there!)
STEER - "Animals rounded up in a roundup" (Never knew this was plural! Silly me!)
ELEA - "Zeno's home" (Huh?!?)
REES - "Roger who played a part on 'Cheers'" (This seems a bit too obscure, IMO)
Junk Answers:
LAT - "One of a pair of map coordinates: Abbr." (Please!)
ELLS - "The black square chunk in front of 55-, 60, and 63-Across, and others" (Whew!)
STER - "Suffix with prank or poll" (Really?)
SSTS - "Concord, for short" (This answer and its singular need to be retired!)
TAS - "See 6-Down," which is "Things graded by 7-Down (TESTS)"
IRAS - "Nest egg for the golden years" (Only because "IRA" was in yesterday's puzzle)
Clever clues:
None that floated my boat...
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