Editor: Will Shortz
Solving time: 40:34
Puzzle uniqueness: "State Lines"
Using the abbreviations of states to provide wacky answers. Example: ONEMOTIME with the clue "2:00 in New York vis-à-vis St. Louis?"
Words I hadn't known until now: 0
Trivia I didn't know:
OPENERA - "Tennis world since 1968"
ICET - "Player f TV's Det. Tutuola" (Never seen the show)
BRIS - "Rite for a newborn Jewish boy" (Whatever that is)
TDBANK - "Financial institution whose parent company is Canadian" (Huh?)
ESME - "Name in a Salinger title"
BOER - "It means 'farmer' in Afrikaans" (How 'bout that?)
EDH - "Icelandic letter"
EOS - "Sister of Helios"
TOPHOLE - "First-rate, in British slang"
LYNNE - "Jeff _____, leader of the Electric Light Orchestra"
Junk Answers:
RONI - "Rice-a-___
ENOL - "Hydroxyl compound"
MSG - "Imparter of umami taste, in brief"
EDH - (See above)
ISM - "Ideology"
UNI - "Start to form?"
ETE - "Tour d France time"
EMI - "Former parent co. of Gramophone and Parlophone records"
EPI - "Commercial lead-in to Pen"
XKES - "Vintage Jaguars"
Clever clues:
NEWDO - "Change of locks?"
SPARE - "Fifth wheel?"
Obscure (i.e., really reaching) words: 0
SPARE - "Fifth wheel?"
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