Editor: Will Smith
Solving time: DNF
Puzzle uniqueness: 0
Words I hadn't known until now:
PHLOX - "Flower whose name is Greek for 'flame'"
LAKSHMI - "Hindu goddess of prosperity" (Wow!)
RIJKSMUSEUM - "Home of Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch'"
IDEALGAS - "Substance obeying Boyle's law" (Have no idea what this means)
Trivia I didn't know:
BEERBRAT - "Sausage at an Oktoberfest"
KMART - "Chain once self-styled as 'the Saving Place'"
MOAB - "Seat of Utah's Grand County"
AMY - "'Ask ___' (syndicated advice column)"
STAKES - "Track prize" (Never knew "stakes" were the prize)
PRIAM - "Final Trojan king"
ALTS - "Secondary personas. om role-playing game lingo" (Though I see the logic)
LEROUX - "Gaston ______, Frenchman who wrote 'The Phantom of the Opera'"
CENTUPLE - "Increase a hundredfold" (Never knew this word existed, but why not?)
KATEMOSS - "She's been on the cover of British Vogue more than anyone else"
Junk Answers:
GMAJOR - "Setting of 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusic'" (Stupid trap where if you don't know the across answer you have to randomly pick E, G, B, D, F)
SYR - "Like many asylum seekers in the 2010s: Abbr."
EDGEIN - "Parallel-park, e.g."
ALTS - (See above)
Clever clues:
EARS - "Reception figures?"
DJS - "Reception figures"
AIRSICK - "Under the weather while above the clouds?"
DEA - "Crack team's initials?"
VAN - "Moving object?"
GOBLONDE - "Become lightheaded?"
PEDALS - "Bicycle couple?"
SCAB - "Strike fear?"
PEALS - "Takes a toll?"
Obscure (i.e., really reaching) words:
MAMABIRD - "Fledgling feeder" (Come on, really?)
PHLOX - (See above)
LAKSHMI - (See above)
VARIETAL - "Chardonnay or merlot"
VJDAY - "Time of surrender in '45"
BEERBRAT - "Sausage at an Oktoberfest"
KMART - "Chain once self-styled as 'the Saving Place'"
MOAB - "Seat of Utah's Grand County"
AMY - "'Ask ___' (syndicated advice column)"
STAKES - "Track prize" (Never knew "stakes" were the prize)
PRIAM - "Final Trojan king"
ALTS - "Secondary personas. om role-playing game lingo" (Though I see the logic)
LEROUX - "Gaston ______, Frenchman who wrote 'The Phantom of the Opera'"
CENTUPLE - "Increase a hundredfold" (Never knew this word existed, but why not?)
KATEMOSS - "She's been on the cover of British Vogue more than anyone else"
Junk Answers:
GMAJOR - "Setting of 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusic'" (Stupid trap where if you don't know the across answer you have to randomly pick E, G, B, D, F)
SYR - "Like many asylum seekers in the 2010s: Abbr."
EDGEIN - "Parallel-park, e.g."
ALTS - (See above)
Clever clues:
EARS - "Reception figures?"
DJS - "Reception figures"
AIRSICK - "Under the weather while above the clouds?"
DEA - "Crack team's initials?"
VAN - "Moving object?"
GOBLONDE - "Become lightheaded?"
PEDALS - "Bicycle couple?"
SCAB - "Strike fear?"
PEALS - "Takes a toll?"
Obscure (i.e., really reaching) words:
MAMABIRD - "Fledgling feeder" (Come on, really?)
PHLOX - (See above)
LAKSHMI - (See above)
VARIETAL - "Chardonnay or merlot"
VJDAY - "Time of surrender in '45"
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