Editor: Will Shortz
Solving time: 09:33
Puzzle uniqueness:
Answer SILENTPARTNER is clue to three two-word phrases in which each word in the phrase has the same silent letter. Example: CAMPAIGNSIGNS
Words I hadn't known until now:
GORSE - "Vegetation along a British golf course"
Trivia I didn't know:
SATIE - "'Gymnopedies' composer Erik"
NERO - "Claudius's successor" (Though the four letters made it sort of obvious)
DRLAURA - "Advice-giver on SiriusXM"
MORGAN - "New York's ______ Library"
IRONAGE - "Period in Europe starting around 1100 B.C."
PORSCHE - "Boxster maker"
FROS - "Bushy dos"
SKEE - "____-Ball"
MAA - "Goat's bleat"
AKA - "Lead-in to an alias"
VWS - "Bugs on the road?"
PSA - "Smokey Bear was in an early one, for short"
HOS - "Sounds from the Jolly Green Giant"
EDS - "Mag. staffers"
SNO - "___ Balls (snack food)"
Clever clues:
HILO - "U.S. city whose name looks oxymoronic" (High/Low, get it?)
HDTV - "It'll give you a clear picture"
Obscure (i.e., really reaching) words:
GALENA - "Main ore of lead"
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