Monday, October 16, 2017

NYT Crossword 10/14/17 (Sat.)

Cruciverbalist: Sam Ezersky
Editor: Will Smith

Solving time: 33:04

Puzzle uniqueness: 0

Words I hadn't known until now: 0

Trivia I didn't know:

UGLYBETTY - "Hit TV series based on a Colombian telenovela"
HOSEA - Source of the line 'They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind'"
TRAPQUEEN - "2015 #2 hit for rapper Fetty Wap"
ASHE - "Eponym of a North Carolina city"
AMMAN - "World capital once known as Philadelphia"
EDITH - "Mrs. Woodrow Wilson"
ECONMAJOR - " Many a B-school applicant" (Have no idea what a "B-school" is)
CHOCOTACO - "Crunchy Klondike product"
EGRET - "Symbol of the National Audubon Society"
TYRABANKS - "Model who popularized the term 'smizing'"
NYNEX - "Half of a 1997 telecom merger"
SHARON - "P.M. between Barak and Olmert"
LOGARITHM - "What turns 1,000 into 3, in base 10"
USANDTHEM - "Longest song on Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon"
REID - "Brit ____, real name of the Green Hornet"

Junk Answers:

BBQ - "Pit-y party?"
SATS - "Topics for Kaplan"
NYNEX - (See above)
BWAY - "Tony' place, for short?"

Clever clues:

PROM - "Senior moment?"
LUTZ - "Spin out on the ice?"
ATTICDOOR - "One way to the top"

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

MAGUS - "Sorcerer"
IAMB - "One of 70 in a Shakespeare sonnet"
REUNES - "Gets together after 10 or 20 years, say"

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