Kathleen Duncan makes her New York Times Crossword debut.
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THURSDAY PUZZLE — I’ve said it before in this column, and I will say it again: When it comes to Thursday puzzles, expect anything. Thursday themes will not always be the longest entries in a puzzle; they may not all be Across entries, as thmed entries typically are earlier in the week; and sometimes the letters may even escape the grid.
You get the idea.
Keep your mind open and flexible for this clever debut by Kathleen Duncan. I had a lot of fun with it, and I think you will, too.
Today’s Theme
Sometimes theme entries go off in different directions, and that is precisely what is happening in today’s puzzle. We will be making film genres bend to our wills: Each theme clue contains two movies each, and we need to figure out 1) what their genres are, and 2) where we need to bend them.
Oh, and that’s why there are dashes in your clue list if you are solving online. The dashes indicate that the remainder of the genre you are solving for is included in that space.
For example, the theme clue at 1A is [ “Interview With the Vampire” and “Prince of Thorns”]. The answer is DARK F and then just trails off. That doesn’t make any sense, so something else must be going on. If you look at 5D, where the F is in the first position, the clue is one of those dashes. Boo. That’s no help.
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