Unless you’re familiar with all the hybrid fruit varieties out there (and surely not that many people are) then today’s NYT crossword clue would have been baffling; it involves knowing a particular “Hybrid fruit similar to an ‘aprium.’”
If you’re stuck on this clue from the Aug. 29 NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you aren’t alone. And it’s not a fake fruit with a fake name either, although it sounds like one.