Friday, October 20, 2017

NYT Crossword 10/20/17 (Fri.)

Cruciverbalist: Peter Wentz
Editor: Will Shortz

Solving time: 22:00

Puzzle uniqueness: 0

Words I hadn't known until now: 0

Trivia I didn't know:

ARCSINE - "Inverse function in trigonometry" (Not a math guy)
BEAMS - "Lintels, e.g." (Have no idea what this means)
ONEIL - "Buck ____, first African-American coach in Major League Baseball"
LOU - "Rocker Gramm of Foreigner"
HODAKOTB - "'Today' co-host beginning in 2007" (Didn't know the last name)
WILDE - "'Salome' playwright"
LESSER - "______ ape (gibbon)"
AHAB - "'Grand, ungodly, godlike man,' in literature"
KOI - "Butterfly ___ (fish)"

Junk Answers:

ERS - "Hosp. parts"
BAH - "'Enough of this!'"
DOESO - "Playground retort" (I'm annoyed by the "playground" language answers)
IDED - "No longer anonymous, for short"

Clever clues:

MACS - "Things non-PC people buy?"
FAIRSEX - "Dated women?"
PRAYS - "Appeals to a higher authority?"
SCABS - "Sources of labor pains?"

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

ARCSINE -  (See above)

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