Saturday, July 01, 2017

NYT Crossword 07/01/17 (Saturday)

Cruciverbalist: David Phillips
Editor: Will Smith

Solving time: 28:56

Puzzle uniqueness: 0

Words I hadn't known until now:

SOB - "Noodle house noodles"
OPERASERIA - "Mozart's 'Il Re Pastore,' e.g." (Never heard of "seria")

Trivia I didn't know:

EDNA - "Mother in 'Hairspray'"
FATE - "It 'will find a way,' according to Virgil"
MILAN - "Easternmost of fashion's 'Big Four' cities" (Didn't know there were four big cities)
RAO - "'Kanthapura' novelist Raja ___"
POEM - "'A ___ should not mean / But be': Archibald Macleish"
BENSTEIN - "Economist who shared a Daytime Emmy with Jimmy Kimmel in 1999"
HELENA - "Capital that's home to Last Chance Gulch"
LITAFORD - "'Kiss Me Deadly' rocker" (Never heard of her)
AEROLOGY - "Study of the atmosphere" (Never heard of it, but makes sense)
ARAMIS - "Estee Lauder fragrance for men" (Didn't know it was made by that company)

Junk Answers:

RAO - (See above)
AGRI - "Cultural leader?"
PLIE - "Ballet move"
COSET - "48-Down (MATH) subgroup"
SAES - "Freelancers' enclosures, for short"
INKA - "'____ Dinka Doo' (theme song of Jimmy Durante"

Clever clues:

REST - "Time out?"
ORE - "Some hard rock"
ATOMS - "What's the matter?"
TVCAMERAS - "Soap-making equipment?"
MINERAL - "Kind of deposit"

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

SOBA - (See above)
COSET - (See above)
AEROLOGY - (See above)

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