Saturday, October 21, 2017

NYT Crossword 10/21/17 (Sat.)

Cruciverbalists: Samuel A. Donaldson and Brad Wilber
Editor: Will Smith

Solving time: 22:25

Puzzle uniqueness: 0

Words I hadn't known until now: 

STANHOPE - "Open, one-seated horse-drawn carriage"
MASSIF - "Cluster of mountains"

Trivia I didn't know:

DAMASCUS - "The Mideast's City of Jasmine"
HILARY - "______ B. Price, creator of the comic strip 'Rhymes with Orange'"
AMSELM - "Sainted archbishop of Canterbury"
BIJOU - "Exquisite gem"
ELENAS - " Tennis players Dementieva and Makaraova"
HOTPEPPEREMOJIS - "Sext symbols"
DSHARP - "Note in the B major scale"
CHOO - "Shoe designer Jimmy"
IONA - "Where Macbeth is buried"
OMSK - "Locale of Dostoyevsky's exile"

Junk Answers:

CEE - "Part of a Connecticut trio?"
TSPS - "Amts. of powder, maybe"
WEDO - "Shared vow"
REI - "King, in Portugal"
ECARD - "Lame (but eco-friendly) birthday gift"
IMLIKE - "'And my reaction was ...,' in teenspeak"

Clever clues: 0

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

STANHOPE - (See above)
MASSIF - " (See above)
SYSTOLES - "Contractions of the heart"

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