Editor: Will Smith
Solving time: 26:09
Puzzle uniqueness: 0
Words I hadn't known until now:
OSTERIA - "Basic Italian bistro"
SWAYBAR - "Stabilizer in suspensions"
Trivia I didn't know:
IDALUPINO - "Director/co-star of 'The Bigamist,' 1953"
BANFF - "Second-oldest national park in North America"
PINOTS - "Champagne grapes" (Never knew this)
NAN - "___ Britton, mistress of Warren Harding who had a sensational 1927 tell-all book"
DRDRE - "Rapper with the 1992 3x platinum debut 'The Chronic'"
BEESEASON - "2005 film starring Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche"
ODEON - "Literally, 'singing place'" (Didn't know that!)
LOLA - "1970 hit with a spelled-out title"
ONTHEUP - "Improving, in Britspeak"
EPEEIST - "One who tries to avoid being touched" (Never knew this word existed, but makes sense)
RATT - "Heavy-metal band with the hit album 'Out of the Cellar' and 'Infestation'"
MAL - "___ du pays (homesickness: Fr.)"
ANNE - "Grandmother of Jesus" (Never thought about this!)
Junk Answers:
EXDA - "Rudy Giuliani or Chris Christie, for short"
ROO - "Down Under critter"
Clever clues:
OPINE - "Give takes"
PCLANGUAGE - "Unslurred speech?"
INSEAM - "Line of clothing"
LIAR - "Fabulous speaker?"
GOSSIPS - "Dish transmitters"
PINATA - "Candy ass?"
ECOLOGY - "Green field?"
LINCOLNERA - "The early '60s, in U.S. politics"
Obscure (i.e., really reaching) words:
OSTERIA - (See above)
EPEEIST - (See above)
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