Monday, October 09, 2017

NYT Crossword 10/09/17 (Mon.)

Cruciverbalist: Joe Deeney
Editor: Will Shortz

Solving time: 09:06

Puzzle uniqueness:

Answer CALENDARREFORM clue to three familiar phrases signifying "day," "week," and "month." Example: EIGHTDAYSAWEEK

Words I hadn't known until now: 0

Trivia I didn't know:

WAT - "Angkor ___ (Cambodian site)"
NGRAM - "Google _____ Viewer (tool for charting word frequency over time)"

Junk Answers:

ATL - "Home for the Hawks and Braves: Abbr."
ISO - "Equal: Prefix"
ROO - "Pal of Pooh"
UMS - "Verbal stumbles"
III - "Three on a grandfather clock"
EDS - "Newspaper staffers, for short"
TMS - "Things with (c) symbols" Abbr."
BLDG - "Edifice: Abbr."
ETH - "Biblical verbal suffix"
OSU - "The Beavers of the Pac-12, for short"
NON - "The "N" of NCO"
ENG - "Main Lang. of the Commonwealth countries"

Clever clues: 

AHOYS - "Ship-to-ship communications?"

Obscure (i.e., really reaching) words: 0

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