Monday, October 30, 2017

NYT Crossword 10/29/17 (Sun.)

Cruciverbalist: Ross Trudeau
Editor: Will Shortz

Solving time: 25:51

Puzzle uniqueness: "Going Off Script"

Movie one-liners plus actor and the answer LINE combined who says them. Example: Answer HAKUNAMATA plus LANELINE.

Words I hadn't known until now:


BONOBO - "Endangered ape"

Trivia I didn't know:

HALS - "'The Merry Drinker' painter"
THECURE - "'Friday I'm in Love' band, 1992"
CHANGE - "What metathesiophobia is the fear of"
TYNER - "Jazz pianist McCoy _____"
GOTYE - "Singer with the 2012 #1 hit 'Somebody That I Used to Know'"
MOLINA - "Jose, Bengie and Yadier _____, catcher brothers with five World Series rings among them"
VALOREM - "Ad _______ tax"
UZIGAL - "Eponymous Israeli gun designer" (Knew the Uzi part, not the other)

Junk Answers:

VPS - "No. 2's"
ASTI - "Wine often served with dessert"
AGT - "Bond, for one: Abbr."
ESE - "Suffix with legal"
ACC - "Blue Devils' org."
LEHI - "Where Samson slew the Philistines"
ACS - "Window fixtures, for short"
ELHI - "K-12"
SLR - "Camera option, for short"
IVE - "'___ had it!'"
IMAC - "Apple desktop"
WWI - "The U.S. joined it in 1917: Abbr."
KER - "Splat preceder"
SRA - "Mrs., abroad"

Clever clues: 

GUMS - "Canine supporters"
CHARADE - "It's all an act"
GRIN - "Small beam"
RYES - "Loafs around a deli?"
PLAID - "Daring thing to wear with polka dots"

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

VALOREM - (See above)
SENESCE - "Get old"

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