Wednesday, October 11, 2017

NYT Crossword 10/11/17 (Wed.)

Cruciverbalist: David J. Kahn
Editor: Will Shortz

Solving time: 07:04 (Personal best for a Wednesday)

Puzzle uniqueness:

GUNFIGHTAT and THEOKCORRAL clues for circled letters in central representing a corral with the answers being synonyms for "OK."

Words I hadn't known until now:

ARB - "Wall St. trader" (Don't know this)

Trivia I didn't know:

IGA - "Grocery chain inits."
ASHE - "Queens's ____ Stadium"
TINO - "Baseball's Martinez"
DEF - "Cool, in dated language"
LUI - "Him, to Henri"

Junk Answers:

IGA - (See above)
KOD - "Down for the count, for short"
ALA - "In the mode of"
EEK - "Cartoon cry"

Clever clues:

BAT - "Club for swingers"
SCENE - "It may be stolen on a movie set"
LOB - "Court setup?"

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

BAOBAB - "Thick-trunked tree"

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