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I just made a joke about sixteen-year-old Caleb Madison drinking Scotch, and here he is in the Times with an alcohol theme! My only hesitation was IST for IZE at 51A, briefly forgetting that Congo = ZAIRE. PORTman and WINEhouse were gimmes from the clues, and RUMsfeld from a few letters.
No takers for my "puzzle" from yesterday? One competitor was a rookie this year, the other (whose nametag I noticed last year) was B Division. The directors aren't household names, but I think they're still "A-list", as they've each directed multiple Oscar-winning films. (Not multiple-Oscar-winning films, necessarily.)
3 comments:
i'd take you up on your puzzle, but considering i didn't know the director of casablanca or gone with the wind, i'm pretty sure i wouldn't recognize an A-list director's name if it were staring me in the face. there was no steven spielberg at the tournament.
Seconding Joon.
Unless it were perhaps Peter Jackson, I wouldn't know a director if s/he punched me in the face.
Not that I've done anything to warrant a directorial face-punching, mind you. And I've never met Christian Bale... although he's an actor, so that wouldn't count either.
Where was I? Oh yes. Good question, but can't help here.
I'm with joon and Howard. I knew Victor Fleming was the director of "Gone With the Wind" only because Vic Fleming included this clue in one of his Sun puzzles:
Director of "Gone With the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz" (who is no relation to the author of this puzzle)
It's a great question, but one that's definitely not in my wheelhouse.
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