Editor: Will Shortz
Solving time: 33:47
Puzzle uniqueness: 0
Words I hadn't known until now:
COLPORTEUR - "Peddler of religious literature" (WTF?!?)
Trivia I didn't know:
ALDA - "'The Aviator' actor, 2004"
LEON - "Province of NW Spain"
COPA - "'At the ____' (subtitle of a 1978 hit)"
AZTEC - "Language related to Hopi"
HAVISHAM - "Dickens character 'with a dead lull about her'"
FLORIDATECH - "University in Melbourne"
BOER - "Great Trek figure of the 1830s"
ABBOTT - "Jim ______, one-handed Yankee who pitched a no-hitter in 1993"
EGAN - "Pulitzer-winning novelist Jennifer"
HANNAH - "'Girls' girl played by Lena Dunham"
Junk Answers:
DUH - "'Well, yeah!'"
ATNO - "Md or Rn fig."
RKO - "Company behind Hitchcock's 'Notorius'"
IATE - "'____ it up and spit it out' ('My Way' lyric)"
SEPT - "9/"
Clever clues:
CHARY - "Word that's its own synonym when its first two letters are replaced with 'w'"
BOAT - "One making bank-to-bank transfers?"
Obscure (i.e., really reaching) words:
COLPORTEUR - (See above)
ANTENATAL - "During pregnancy" ("Prenatal" is more common by a lot)
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