Sunday, June 04, 2017

NYT Crossword 06/04/17 (Sunday)

Cruciverbalist: Tom McCoy
Editor: Will Shortz

Solving time: 32:01

Puzzle uniqueness: "Advice To Writers"

Advice in which the advice itself is an example of the advice (Example: POOFREADCARFULLY)

Words I hadn't known until now: 0

Trivia I didn't know:

SBARRO - "Restaurant chain with a flag in its logo"

Junk Answers:

RDS - "They go from town to town, abbr."
ETH- "Old English letter"
MMV - "2005, to Cato"
NORI - "'Me, neither,' formally"
MTS- "Much of W.Va."
ANA - ""Santa ___, Calif."
DEM - "Bill Clinton or Barack Obama, informally"
OER - "Atop, poetically"
STA - "RR stop"
ONCD - "Like some audiobooks"
TIL - "Up to"
MHOS - "Conductance quantities"

Clever clues:

TETRA - "Bi- and bi-?"
PIERCEDEARS - "Ring bearers, maybe"
HOLEINONE - "Stroke of luck?"
MUSICIAN - "Person of note?"

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

SBARRO - (See above)
OVERGO - "Exceed"

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