Thursday, October 12, 2017

NYT Crossword 10/12/17 (Thu.)

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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