Editor: Will Shortz
Solving time: 10:31
Puzzle uniqueness:
According to Dartmouth librarian Laura Braunstein, this is a "morphological reduplication" puzzle, where "an idiom and the names of a person, a brand, and a Muppet repeat sounds (morphemes) in a rhyming pattern." (Example: OODLESOFNOODLES)
Words I hadn't known until now:
ENDASH - "Hyphen's longer cousin"
ANISEED - "Ouzo flavoring" (I've heard of anisette, but not this)
SLABBING - "Applying thickly, with 'on'" (No...just no...)
Trivia I didn't know:
ABBYCADABBY - "'Sesame Street' Muppet with wings and a magic wand"
Junk Answers:
OHO - "'So that's your trick!"
ARI - "'Exodus' hero"
TOK - "TiK ___' (Ke$ha hit)"
SEZ - "'Oh, yeah? ___ who?'"
AMO - "I love, in Latin"
OOF - "Sound that a punch in the gut elicits"
Clever clues:
STOLE - "Took the wrong way?"
HEARSE - "Opposite of a life coach?"
Obscure (i.e., really reaching) words:
ANISEED - (See above)
SLABBING - (See above: No...just no...)
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