Solution: Six for dinner - NYT Crossword

O.K., here’s the thing about crossword clues: They’re kind of like a box of chocolates, to paraphrase filmdom’s Forrest Gump, because you never really know what you’re gonna get. Especially on Wednesdays. Many of the clues are still straightforward. And then you get a clue like “Six for dinner?” which could mean different things. I thought about six o’clock being dinnertime. It could have been six people needing a table at a restaurant. But that’s not where this went at all. This is a counting clue! There are six letters in the word “dinner,” so the six called for in the clue is the WORD LENGTH.