Tuesday, May 16, 2017

NYT Crossword 05/16/17 (Tuesday)

Cruciverbalist: Bruce Haight
Editor: Will Shortz

Solving time: 14:36

Puzzle uniqueness:

State names plus one letter to scramble into two-word answers.

Words I hadn't known until now:

CAPSID - "Outer protein shell of a virus"

Trivia I didn't know:

AMIS - "Martin who wrote 'London Fields'"
ALEC - "Evelyn Waugh's writer brother"
THEO - "'Divergent' actor James"
NAN - "A Bobbsey twin"

Junk Answers:

ORS - "Option words"
BAS - "___ -relief"
SSN - "Phishing target: Abbr."
ARG - "S. Amer. home of the tango"
PAS - "Ballet step"
ITT - "Big inits. in the aerospace industry"

Clever clues: 0

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

CAPSID - (See above)
SENTUP - "Parodied"
SCHUSS - "Straight downhill run on skis"

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