Editor: Will Shortz
Solving time: 15:01
Puzzle uniqueness:
Answer THREERINGCIRCUS clue to three sets of circled squares each in a semi-quasi "ring" signifying circus acts. Example: WIREWALKER
Trivia I didn't know:
CYPRESSHILL - "Hip-hop group with the triple-platinum album 'Black Sunday'"
PNIN - "Nabokov novel"
ASSAI - "Very, in music"
ANDRE - "Traitorous Major _____ of the Revolutionary War"
NAGIN - "Ray _____, mayor of New Orleans during Katrina"
ERTE - "'Symphony in Black' artist"
SELAH - "Interjection occurring frequently in Psalms"
EOCENE - "Epoch characterized by the rise of mammals"
FIG - "Garden of Eden tree" (One of those "How 'bout that!" answers)
Junk Answers:
IED - "Roadside bomb, briefly"
ANC - "Nelson Mandela's org."
KER - "Lead-in to plop or plunk"
DEGS - "M.B.A. and Ph.D., for two"
FSTAR - "Polaris, e.g., in astronomy" (One of those if you don't know the cross you're toast)
SWE - "Abba's, home: abbr."
Clever clues:
WATT - "Power figure?"
Obscure (i.e., really reaching) words:
PNIN - (See above)
PNIN - (See above)
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