My time: 7:56, exactly the same as my average Tuesday.
Theme: JUSTICE GINSBURG. Her nickname, THE NOTORIOUS RBG, the film of her work on gender equality, ON THE BASIS OF SEX, her Brooklyn neighborhood, FLATBUSH, and her law school alma mater (where she "finished at the top of her class") COLUMBIA, are all featured.
The subatomic particle the BOSON is named after "Indian physicist" Satyendra Nath Bose, professor of physics at University of Calcutta and at University of Dhaka. The name boson was coined by English physicist Paul Dirac to commemorate his contribution in developing, with Albert Einstein, Bose–Einstein statistics—which theorizes the characteristics of elementary particles.
I know about anise, but it took me a while to get to the liqueur ANISETTE.
HILO is the biggest town on the island of Hawaii. More interestingly, it's the fourth-wettest city in the United States.
So, ABSCAM was the big new item for me. "Inspiration for the 2013 film American Hustle," it was a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) sting operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s that led to the convictions of seven members of the United States Congress. The two-year investigation initially targeted trafficking in stolen property and corruption of prominent businessmen, but later evolved into a public corruption investigation. The name initially derived from a shortening of "Arab scam."
Emmy-winning actress SELA Ward is a crossword mainstay.
Golfer Ernie ELS and his nickname, "The Big Easy," have been mentioned before.
Did I enjoy today's crossword? SURE DID!
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