Saturday, August 26, 2017

NYT Crossword 08/26/17 (Sat.)

Cruciverbalist: Peter Wentz
Editor: Will Smith

Solving time: 30:14

Puzzle uniqueness: 0

Words I hadn't known until now: 

POMELO - "Exotic salad ingredient"

Trivia I didn't know:

BOYLESLAW  "PV = k, to a physicist"
MALAWI - "'The Warm Heart of Africa'"
BODYMAN - "President's aide"
YESAND - "Phrase used as a basic tenet of improve comedy"
GREG - "Daniels who adapted 'The Office' for NBC"
KNEEHOLES - "Some office openings" (I have no idea what this is, unless it's the space you put your legs under an office desk)
JAYGATSBT - "Storied party host" (Never read the book, so I didn't know his first name)
OLAF - "N.C.A.A.'s St. ____ Oles"
LEBANON - "Cedar Revolution locale" (Though "cedar," as in "Cedars of Lebanon" is a big clue)
LESH - "Grateful Dead bassist Phil" (Only a Deadhead would get this right off)
BASIL - "Lime cooler ingredient"

Junk Answers:

TASTEOK - "'How's the food?'" (WTF? I would think it should be "Tastes OK")
GAH - "Cry of frustration" (Again, WTF? "Bah" maybe or "Pah," but "Gah"?)
RNS - "Careful workers, briefly?"
LESH - (See above)

Clever clues:

ORALPHASE - "Nursing is a key component of it"
AFTERSHAVE - "It hurts when you rub it in"
WOMB - "'Oven'"
NORMA - "Woman's name that becomes a man's name when its first letter is added to the end"

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

KNEEHOLES - (See above)
MULAN - "1998 Disney princess"

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