Wednesday, October 25, 2017

NYT Crossword 10/24/17 (Tue.)

Cruciverbalist: Damon Gulczynski
Edited by: Will Shortz

Solving time: 11:20

Puzzle uniqueness: 

Answer ANOTHERDIMENSION clue to four phrase answers with the last words leading to a dimension. ...POINT, ...LINE, ...PLANE and ...SPACE.

Words I hadn't known until now: 

UNADON - "Japanese eel-and-rice dish"

Trivia I didn't know:

HADJ - "One of the Five Pillars of Islam"
LECAR - "Old Renault"
RENOIR - "'The Bathers' painter"

Junk Answers: 

DEA - "Org. in 'Breaking Bad'"
AERO - "Streamlined, for short"
IDO - "Swear words?"
IRR - "Like the verbs ''lie' and 'lay': Abbr."
INDO - "Intro to Chinese?"
IPA - "Hoppy quaff, for short"
IOU - "Marker letters"
EXEC - "'Suit'"

Clever clues: 

NAGS - "Horses that could be hounds or badgers?"

Obscure (i.e., really reaching) words: 0

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