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Clues by Tramp and Grid by Calluna
Theme: Marlon Brando (born April 3rd, 1924)
The winner of the April puzzle is Joe Gage of London.
A bigger puzzle this month at 9 x 5 x 5 and 38 entries, allowing for more and longer words. A good mix of thematic content makes this a puzzle we can’t — well, I’m getting ahead of things.
The vocabulary didn’t hit too many uncommon (for crosswords at least) words. The thematic content should mostly be familiar even if the solver hasn't seen the films in question. Exploring the greatest hits of one of the most iconic actors in Hollywood history should lead to some familiar characters.
Day 4 brings us an anagram to reach APOCALYPSE NOW (the director’s name helps a lot with that, in both ways). We have KURTZ at 19. And SURFS at 36, which we know “Charlie don’t.”
Giving us a Coppola double-feature, Day 15 gives us the GODFATHER, which I had to reverse engineer, but “goather(d)” is a good start on that word! 11 brings us CORLEONES and 27, MR. MUMBLES.
Other clues of note were Day 14, which had an evocative surface for a lexically interesting word, and 20 which has an explicit enough clue to help with a possibly unfamiliar word.
The pictorial clue is a 1000 amidst a bunch of Ed Sheerans — but explicitly not “the best” one. So it’s the WOR(M)SE EDS, as in Day 37.
The bonus for the month was found in the yellow cells of the puzzle which could be used to spell I’M GONNA MAKE HIM AN OFFER HE CAN’T REFUSE, a line spoken by our subject as Don Vito Corleone in the Godfather.
Fortunately, “our thing” is crosswords and not running a criminal empire or a clandestine operation in a warzone. This puzzle delivers the goods with a minimal amount of flak. But now I do want some cannoli.
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Grid Solution
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