![]() ![]() Three-letter movie starting with R.it could've been anything. My kids are now old enough to go with me to more "advanced" movies, so I'm no longer hip to the dozens of animated films like I used to be. I had trouble with the LINA/LOGY/RIO crossing. Hey, but at least the trains ran on time! Obviously, the Nazi regime is most notorious for their wanton inhumanity (and for good reason), but it is often forgotten they sucked for other reasons too.this being one more added to the very long list. I'm a huge MAHLER fan.as I understand it, his works all but died out until Bruno Walter (and others, but mostly Walter.who was Mahler's protege) worked to bring his music back into the rep. "Me want woom wiv vu!" I have never heard of this "play." It was probably a big deal when these songs were (more) popular. 47D: "6 Rms _ Vu" (1972 play) (" RIV") - Honestly, I went with "WIV." Thought we were doing baby talk play on a Forster title.neighbor ( IRE) - that is a nice attempted save, emphasis on "attempted": still no good to have IRE and IRATE in the same grid. Also ELK was well (and pretty nicely) hidden at 7A: Popular game? Is it popular? Really? Well, at any rate, I like the play on "game." Took me a while to consider the general ERRS. Took me a while to get ROOM, in part because 7D: Makes a wrong turn seemed so … turn-specific. 14A: Scope ( ROOM) - strangely, this little nook in the north caused me the most difficulty.But the short stuff is too often unbearable, and the theme has no appeal except nostalgia. And there's definitely some decent longer, non-theme stuff in there (weirdly, unusually, that may be where this puzzle is strongest- RUN ALONG, GRAPE NUTS IMPOSTOR! You can have HAIR COMB (?) back, but the other longer stuff is pretty decent. They are popular, they are old, they are going to play well with the NYT's core demographic. It's a 76-worder w/ cheaters, so why the RIV / IPSO, why the AWET / ODAS, why the ERES / ILO / AAU / KAI, why the EHLE / AROW / LOGY, and why the THE JETS? It all felt so terribly unpolished. ![]() The fill (once again) is remarkably poor in places. Interesting upon reflection, but not very pleasant to solve. It's architecturally interesting, in its way, but mainly it seemed messy. Multiply cross-referenced clues, chopped up answers … no pleasure there for me. But I don't see what's enjoyable about any of it, except if you happen to like some or all of the songs involved. They all share that YOU, and they are symmetrical.
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