Editor: Will Shortz
Solving time: 23:56
Puzzle uniqueness:
Answer HOLDDOWNTHEFORT is clue to three other answers containing "fort" in which "fort" is part of down clues.
Words I hadn't known until now:
ECTOPIC - "Out of place, in obstetric parlance" (I've run across this word in my life, but would never have pulled it)
HAB - "Biblical book preceding Zeph." (Even with the answer, I have no idea what this represents)
Trivia I didn't know:
BEAUFORTSCALE - "*Wind speed metric"
SYNGE - "J.M. _____, 'The Playboy of the Western World' playwright"
Junk answers:
MDS - "Figures on CBS's 'Code Black': Abbr."
TSP - "Kitchen meas."
RDS - "GPS data: Abbr."
TIL - "Up to, informally"
EEN - "Yet, to Hamlet"
HOR - "Old TV knob: Abbr."
RUS - "U.N. Security Council permanent member: Abbr."
MASCOTS - "Game animals, for some"
ODE - "What might be written to a famous person"
Obscure (i.e., really reaching) words:
ECTOPIC - (See above)
REAIMS - "Adjusts one's sights"
ORESTES - "Euripides tragedy"
STAVE - "Fend (off)"
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