GENRE/BENDING trick today, where mash-ups literally take a ninety-degree turn in the grid. As so often happens, the dash clues gave the game away early, but there really wasn't any way around it in this one. And still, I couldn't think of DARK/FANTASY ("Interview With the Vampire" and "Prince of Thorns") or COMING/OFAGE ("Lady Bird" and "Stand By Me") without a few crosses. The one that broke it for me was "'Borat' and 'This is Spinal Tap'" (MOCKUMEN/TARY), although at first I wanted it to be plural. And, for the record, for the purposes of carrying on this talk of diacritics as long as possible, I tried to put the rock umlaut over the "n" in Spinal Tap just now, but the umlauted N is not, apparently, allowed as a character. At least not in whatever editor Blogspot uses.
And in the opposite corner, NICKNAME got a great clue (Second calling?), and one always enjoys a reference to "The Simpsons" (NED - Subject of Homer's loathing), even if it does focus on ill will.
- Horace
p.s. I didn't realize that the Knights of REN were a whole thing in Star Wars. I thought it was just a surname. (Is it both?)
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