Editor: Will Shortz
Solving time: 15:41
Puzzle uniqueness:
Answer HEADOVERHEELS clue to three pairs of answers in which the top answer is a good leader and the answer underneath is a bad guy. Example: TOPBANANA over NOGOODNIK
Words I hadn't known until now:
DOREMI - "Moolah" (Huh?)
Trivia I didn't know:
RUDI - "Designer Gemreich who invented the monokini"
VUE - "French scene"
TOD - "Fox in 'The Fox and the Hound'"
TSR - "Co. that launched Dungeons and Dragons" (I can never remember this)
SYD - "Hip-hop's ___ tha Kyd" (Though it's pretty obvious)
ENOS - "1961 project Mercury chimp"
CHAIM - "With 47-Across (TOPOL), 'Fiddler on the Roof' star" (Never knew Topol's first name)
RODIN - "Philadelphia's _____ Museum (art institution)"
HERO - "'Somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown,' per Tom Hanks"
LUSAKA - "Zambia's capital"
Junk answers:
RBIS - "They're usually not credited after errors, for short"
OTYPE - "Common blood group"
TSR - (See above)
APU - "Kwik-E-Mart clerk"
NOTOK - "Proscribed"
STA - "Place with a platform: Abbr."
DST - "It ends in Nov."
OLA - "Greeting in Brazil"
EUR - "Common Market market: Abbr."
ETAT - "Entite politique francaise"
INE - "Suffix with elephant"
OOH - "Shout at a circus"
TEL - "Hookup for a tenant: abbr."
Clever clues:
ONE - "First in an infinite series"
PUPIL - "It grows in the dark"
ELOPE - "Split to join"
AUTOS - "They're tired"
Obscure (i.e., really reaching) words:
DOREMI - (See above)
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