Tricky Clues19A: TALIB Kweli is a rapper, half of the brainy late ’90s group Black Star (with Mos Def). Thank me later!™91A: “Cell exchanges” did not bring to mind TEXTS for me, and I found it clever. 101A: For “Deliverance person,” I searched my mind far and wide for some six-letter synonym for “redneck,” because I was thinking of Deliverance Deliverance, the movie with the banjo pickin’ in the background. 73D: I was really sort of excited to see POCKY in the puzzle, delicious little cute word that it is. I’ve been so fortunate to have friends and mentors who have supported me through the process of learning to construct.

Source: New York Times December 09, 2017 23:00 UTC