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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