Editor: Will Shortz
Solving time: 40:27
Puzzle uniqueness: "Back On The Charts"
Tail end of answers have one word musical artists. (Example: CROWNJEWEL)
Words I hadn't known until now:
ARCTAN - "Inverse trig function"
Trivia I didn't know:
APIA - "Pacific capital"
PAZ - "1990 Literature Nobelist Octavio ___"
ABAA - "Rhyme scheme ending a villanelle"
DOUGIE - "Dance craze of the 2010s"
PROLES - "'______ and animals ae free' (party slogan in '1984'"
IME - "'___ Mine' (George Harrison book)"
CASS - "Lewis ____, 1848 Democratic candidate for president" (Really?)
ANN - "Barack Obama's mother"
COLE - "'Born Sinner' rapper J. ____"
USONE - "Me.-to-Fla. route" (I've lived in the southwest my whole life)
MOUNTKENYA - "17,000+-foot peak near the Equator(4)" ("4" is # of letters in ENYA)
ADRIANA - "Supermodel Lima"
LEO - "Certain fire sign" (Not even sure what that means)
NYU - "Home of the Gallatin Sch. of Individualized Study" (Huh?)
Junk Answers:
OSE - "Sugar suffix"
EST - "Is from ancient Rome?"
WTO - "Intl. commerce grp."
IME - (See above)
ALII - "Others of ancient Rome?"
IMIN - "'Sure, sign me up!'"
Clever clues:
MOONS - "Gets cheeky with?"
NTH - "Degree in math?"
AIR - "It's inspired"
SHOE - "Unit around a foot?"
ACCORDION - "Band member's main squeeze(4)? (4 is # of letters in DION)
Obscure (i.e., really reaching) words:
ONYXES - "Banded gemstones"
PROLES - (See above)
DOUGIE - (See above)
ARCTAN - (See above)
PENPUSHER - "One doing routine office work, informally (5)" (Ok, pencil pusher or paper pusher I'll buy, but pen? Also "5" is # of letters for USHER)
HEISTING - "Pulling off bank jobs" (Rare in this tense, IMO)
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