Editor: Will Shortz
Solving time: 35:26
Puzzle uniqueness: "Silent Treatment"
Phrases which have a word with a silent letter, "funny" clues to phrase as if letter wasn't there. (Example: GIVESADAMN - "Donates shelter to some beavers?")
Words I hadn't known until now:
LOQUAT - "Asian plumlike fruit"
Trivia I didn't know:
ANTI - "Rihanna's 2016 ____ World Tour"
ALGREN - "Nelson who wrote 'The Man With the Golden Arm'"
ADU - "Freddy once hailed as 'the next Pele'"
SEGAR - "Popeye creator E. C. _____" (I just can't seem to remember his name...every time)
ARIE - "Singer India.____" (Another one I can never remember)
TYGA - "Popular rapper with a feline-sounding name"
IVANIV - ""'The Terrible' czar" (Never can remember the number)
Junk Answers:
IMOK - ""'Don't worry about me'"
TGEL - "Neutrogena dandruff shampoo"
IDNO - "Social Security fig."
DTS - "Sot's woes"
YSL - "Big fashion inits."
ARG - "S. Amer. land"
UNODOS - "Start of a Spanish count" (Really?)
BLEH - "'Ugh!'"
GOTAC - "Did so-so at school"
EMAILME - "Shoot over your response"
ECASH - "Digital currency"
Clever clues:
DOWN - "Up (for), paradoxically"
NEST - "Flight destination?"
NOONE - "Who has ever won a debate over the internet?"
GOBALD - "Clear one's head?"
AIDE - "One might represent a representative"
Obscure (i.e., really reaching) words:
LOQUAT - (See above)
AQUACAR - "Amphibious auto"
GUINEAN - "Native of Conakry"
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