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...Mahowald, puzzle creation begins with a theme. This can be as simple as a famous quote that is revealed on the board through solutions to many clues, or as complicated as replacing letter combinations in common idioms, as in his first Sunday crossword entitled “I.E., not I.” When the puzzle called for a “DNA sample for lab analysis” the answer was “GENE IN A BOTTLE...
After picking a theme and setting the grid, “you start filling the grid with words,” Mahowald says. Even though there are now computer programs that have extensive stores of words and tell the constructor which words can possibly fit, it is still the human touch that separates the ordinary puzzles from the extraordinary ones that are seen in the Times and other respected publications...
...third-person or first-person: Abbr. 37 Formal wear 39 Listen (to) 43 Hospital locales, briefly 44 Teachers’ org. 45 Blues singer James 46 *Like someone with a water phobia? 51 Unkempt hair 52 Without a shirt 53 Yoko ___ 54 Hydrocarbon suffix 55 Fox show whose theme song is “California” 60 Israeli guns 62 Mother fucking? 66 Number of muses 67 Total, as a tab 68 Make-up artist? 69 Head, in French 70 Go too fast 71 Throw spitballs...
...played with a bull-headed majesty by Jiang Wen, China's leading movie actor) hears than Jianli (Ge You, a stalwart of several Zhang Yimou films) is enslaved by a rival clan; he sends one of his lieutenants to defeat the clan and return with Jianli. He needs a theme song, and desperately wants the musician to compose an anthem for him. But Jianli is a stubborn sort, not easily bossed by his childhood friend; and he complicates things by having a liaison with the warlord's strong-willed, crippled daughter Yueyang (Xu Qing), who had been promised...
...this a political film? War and the consequences to the soldier is a theme in my movies. Terminator has a scarred soldier character...