Editor: Will Shortz
Solving time: 27:47
Puzzle uniqueness:
A themeless. I will make the comment that the Friday and Saturday puzzles are really something. A lot of them (for me) look impossible to solve at first blush. I go around slowly picking at the short answers trying to get a foothold. Then one answer here, another there, and it slowly starts to come together. When I finally solve it, it feels like I've climbed Mt. Everest! Really cool!
Words I hadn't known until now:
HAG - "Beldam" (I know the word, it's the clue I didn't know)
CREMA - "Thin layer of foam at the top of an espresso"
TOTUP - "Add, British-style"
AFROPOP - "Genre for Miriam Makeba and Ladysmith Black Mambazo"
ANNEE - "Year abroad"
ASIAGO - "Pungent cheese"
LINTEL - "Doorframe part"
Trivia I didn't know:
APSES - "Areas where clerics are seated"
OFT - "'Our remedies ___ in ourselves do lie': Shak."
HELLOKITTY - "Toon who wears a red hair bow"
EMU - "Producer of a deep drumming call"
ETHAN - "'_____ Brand' (Nathaniel Hawthorne tale)"
Junk Answers:
No real horrible ones
Clever clues:
PIECHARTS - "Business circles?"
LIDS - "They're open in the morning"
GRAMMARNAZI - "Type for who this clue will be annoying?"
USER - "One who might need an ID"
TOTALBASES - "A batter receives four for a grand slam" (So wanted this to be "runs batted in")
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