I think the WET dupe might actually be worse, though, as WET WIPE (47A: Moist towelette) and WET ONE ( 133A: Slobbery kiss) are actually The Same Thing (though I see how you've tried to clue WET ONE as a kiss. SAWS LOGS is no good because it's practically adjacent to RIPSAW.

Also, re: ' PETITER PAN'?-'Petiter'? Use words that people actually use! Sounds like you don't know how to say 'potato.' Only shaded squares in a themer should be ones involving the movie title. circled square in my grid) from a Down themer appear in the middle of an Across themer. Biggest theme no-no is having a stray 'shaded square' (i.e. love?' It's true! Really wish that could've been the movie involved here. Hey, did you know there *is* a movie called 'Doctor Strange. I've seen every MCU movie thru 'Black Panther' and I couldn't tell you a damn thing about 'Doctor Strange,' because he's not popular and no one cares. man, who can keep track of the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe). See also 'Doctor Strange,' who is a comic book character. But if you put, say, 'EMMA' in this puzzle, while you'd technically be correct (there are movie versions of the Austen novel), 'EMMA' is really best known as a novel. Watch: 'PULPIT FICTION.' Nailed 'It'! Check please!?įurther: 'IT' is a novel. 'IT'? Really? That's a novel, and it (!) is not much of an accomplishment, inserting that into a film to get a wacky phrase. We were promised wacky! Seems like something close to cheating to use so many very short movie titles as the inserts. Then there's STARTED WARS, which is so ordinary a phrase that it undermines the whole premise. which, again, awkward, as no one uses 'bothering' that way-to mean, essentially, annoying.

Clue turns 'bothering' into an adjective. The clue doesn't help, but honestly, there isn't a good clue, because the phrase is nonsense. Too often, the resulting wacky phrases are painfully contrived, so much so that they can't even be clued very plausibly. I think this is an ingenious play on the phrase PICTURE-IN-PICTURE, though the results are a real mixed bags. One less theme answer might've let some air in, let some actually interesting non-theme answers in. Mostly because the title is terrible and inaccurate (there's also an 'outside' story so wtf?), and also because the fill could use a little breathing room.

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