Friday, June 7th - New York Times crossword puzzle live solve

It wasn't pretty, but we got the gold. Watch me suffer.

[@GHondo]

Excellent solve. I also struggled with this one, although what threw me off is I completely forgot about the existence of the word saber for the curved blade, and was trying desperately to make the only 5 letter curved blade I could think of (kukri) work, which... well, obviously didn't go so well.. Oopsy. :) Also, in case you're interested, a tanager is a small songbird. So there you go, your pointless fact for the day. Enjoy!