Greetings my fellow Crossword Mavens! Keeping it short and sweet today, as it's Wed pm as I type this and I'll be on the road all day tomorrow, driving to visit my beloved Parental Units in the next province over. This was a fun one today, with five common words/phrases clued as laudatory Gen-Z film commentary. (Is Gen-Z right? I've lost track of my 'Gen's...) They were quite funny for the most part - so I'll list 'em here:
- "That 1978 musical? Amazing movie!" : GREASEFIRE
- "That 2009 Pixar film? Incredibly well made!" : UPTIGHT
- "That 2013 Disney movie? Pretty decent!" : FROZENSOLID
- "That 2009 science fiction flick? Freaking epic!" : MOONLIT (a tiny bit of a stretch, this one)
- "That 2011 neo-noir? Insanely good!" : DRIVECRAZY
I'll leave the required re-punctuation in your capable hands. Pretty sure I've never used any of these adjectives in this way, superannuated fellow that I am. I did note that my favourite Thai soup - TOMYUM - makes an appearance and could also have been clued as "That English actor Hardy? Oh, I could just eat him up!". ha ha ... maybe I should leave the cluing to the pros....
I didn't try too hard to solve these on first encounter, letting the crossers do their work instead. Had a brief hiccup in the SW corner, entering BOXSET instead of DVDSET for "Complete collection, say", which led to BMINOR as the Baroque "key of glory" (wrong - it's DMAJOR; of course it's a major key). But no lasting damage done there. Interesting that Steve Jobs once worked at ATARI, maker of my family's very first video game. I thought I was tripped up by VIRTU ("Collection of traits necessary for the 'achievement of great things', per Machiavelli) but no, that's the right answer - had to Google it and won't transcribe the details here, but it's basically Italian for "virtue". And when o when will it finally stick in my head that there's such a cereal as OREOOS??
Liked the factoid about SHIVA and the river Ganga. Liked the reminder that the Beatles' JUDE was a boy. Didn't like ALOES.
Gotta run. Friday's submission will come to you from Quebec's beautiful Eastern Townships. Until then, mes amis!
-philbo
I know I said on Wednesdays comment that Jeremy does the common knowledge clues and I pick up the theme, but he got it today! It made solving the rest of the puzzle much easier!
ReplyDeleteWe had “LETSGO” filled in for “what to say when the coast is clear”, so we both thought LANDHO, and subsequently SPADE, was very clever!
We loved the movie references of todays theme, but WOW, Frozen really came out in 2013? We would get the movie part first and though we are both zoomers, we didn’t immediately pick up the “good” slang accompanying them.
I’d describe todays crossword as FIRE, and maybe even LIT!