Editor: Will Shortz
Solving time: 15:21
Puzzle uniqueness:
Answer GANGOFFOUR refers to three groups of four circled squares in which the circled squares form words that follow the word "four." (Example: Letters T-O-P-S in circled squares are clue to "Second set of circled letters" = Four Tops, so the answer is MOTOWNSINGERS.)
Words I hadn't known until now:
AZO - Like some synthetic colorants"
Trivia I didn't know:
QAT - "Arabian stimulant"
LEY - "ESPN broadcaster Bob"
AVON - "River through Bath, England"
PLATTE - "River paralleled by I-80 through a long stretch of the Plains"
URALS - "Range located along the 60th meridian"
Junk answers:
ABIT - "Somewhat"
QAT - (See above)
AZO - (See above)
OTC - "Like Tylenol PM, for short"
LBS - "About 1,400 of them is the record for a human: Abbr."
TIA - "One in la familia"
OPS - "Black ___"
FAS - "Scale notes"
ISR - "Eastern Med. land"
AVOID - "Verb for a dieter"
ATOMS - "Smithereens"
GENES - "Things in pools"
Obscure (i.e., really reaching) words:
QAT - (See above)
AZO - (See above)
BORZOI - "Russian wolfhound"
ZELIG - "1983 Woody Allen film"
TWYLA - "Tharp of dance"
HAGEN - "Golfer
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