Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Tuesday's New York Times crossword puzzle solved: October 13, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My time: 6:08, a minute and a half faster than average.

Theme: WIN-WIN SITUATION, in which four phrases contain the letter string WIN twice.

Apparently D sharp is equivalent to E FLAT.  Why not just have one name, then?  This article's first few sentences provide some completely abstruse gobbledygook to explain it.

Jule STYNE is a British-American composer of musicals, best known for "Gypsy," "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," and "Funny Girl."

I got CHOPIN from his first name, Frédéric, not from knowing he composed the Revolutionary Etude (op. 10, no. 12).  Also known as the Étude on the Bombardment of Warsaw.

"Bygone days, old-style" ELD was clued as "days of yore, in days of yore" on December 22, 2017.

This was a pretty tepid Tuesday.  Not great, not cute or clever, not bad.  It was not A-ONE, but I still FEEL OK about it.

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