Thursday, May 18, 2017

NYT Crossword 05/18/17 (Thursday)

Cruciverbalist: Jacob Stulberg
Editor: Will Shortz

Solving time: 32:28

Puzzle uniqueness:

Four squares that has "chicken" and "road" as a rebus (Multiple letters in one square). Ugh!

Words I hadn't known until now:

SEPTA - "BART : San Francisco :: _____ : Philadelphia"
ESL - "Subj. for a diplomat, maybe"
LINE - "'y = 2x,' e.g." (I don't even know WTF this means)

Trivia I didn't know:

ONES - "'Madness in great ____ must not unwatch'd go': 'Hamlet'"
NASSAU - "Island capital named for a European royal house"
ESTATE - "Subject of Chekov's 'The Cherry Orchard'"
DOR - "'Le Coq ___'"
URANIA - "Muse invoked in 'Paradise Lost'"

Junk Answers:

EST - "It's often rough: Abbr."
SNL - "Show with a record 200+ Emmy noms"
MSGS - "What blinks on a telephone may signify: Abbr,"
ESL - (See above)

Clever clues:

BALE - "Assemble in a field, say"
RENT - "Studio figure"
WHY - "Question raised by four squares in this puzzle?" (SEE "Puzzle uniqueness")
UNTUNED - "A bit sharp, maybe"
BAREXAM - "Legal hurdle?"

Obscure (i.e., really reaching) words: 0

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