Cruciverbalist: Alex Eaton-Salners
Editor: Will Shortz
Solving time: 13:32
Puzzle uniqueness:
All across clues are homophones of the actual clues. Example: Clue is "Mined," the homophone of "mind." Answer is CARE.
Words I hadn't known until now:
BISTRE - "Grayish to yellowish brown"
Trivia I didn't know:
RABE - "Broccoli ____"
EDITH - "English poet Sitwell"
KARAN - "Designer Donna"
Junk answers:
INOR - "'Are you ____ out?'"
NOMSG - "Declaration on a Chinese menu"
ERDOC - "One who may order an operation, informally"
ETTU - "Classical rebuke"
EXES - "Kramer and Kramer, in 'Kramer vs. Kramer'"
YER - "Suffix with saw"
Clever clues:
LAMA - "Priest from on high?"
LIARS - "Ones spinning webs?"
ACTOR - "One for whom work is play?"
Obscure (i.e., really reaching) words:
BISTRE - (See above)
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