NYT Crossword 08/09/17 (Wed.)

Cruciverbalist: Adam G. Perl
Editor: Will Shortz

Solving time: 07:59

Puzzle uniqueness:

Impossible poker clues describing every day phrases. (Example: Answer CHESSMATCH in which the clue is "Where a queen can beat a king")

Words I hadn't known until now: 0

Trivia I didn't know: 

EMIL - "Disney's '____ and the Detectives'"
LEO - "Soccer's Messi, informally"
BEHAN - "'Borstal Boy' author"
PYE - "Onetime English poet laureate Henry James ___"
LEHAR - "'The Merry Widow' composer"

Junk Answers:

ISR - "Mossad's land: Abbr."
EDU - "School email suffix"
OMG - "Texter's 'Yikes!'"
PDAS - "Forerunners of smartphones, for short"
PED - "___ Xing"
AMC - "'The Walking Dead' channel"
MRI - "Radiology exam, briefly"
IPA - "Hoppy brew, briefly"
IES - "Certain plural ending"
RES - "In medias ___"

Clever clues: 0

Obscure (i.e., really reaching) words: 0