#UTTERLY DESTROYED CROSSWORD CLUE MOVIE#

After solving a bunch of answers but also getting weirdly mildly stuck all over, I just went looking for a revealer to see if I could get a grip on what was going on. I'm not even sure I really noticed the middle Across answer, I just noticed that there was a creepy lack of apparent themers, so it was like, I don't know, being in a ghost town where zombies or some faster creatures were going to jump out and maul me any second. I noticed there were no clear *theme* answers in this thing, no longer answers except for that middle Across. The latter seemed quite possible, as it had a '?' clue and who the hell knows what's going on with '?' clues half the time! I left VEND in place and floated down into the middle of the puzzle where things were still eerily off. Was DEV wrong? ( 1D: Part of R & D: Abbr.). Just that first little bit, the tiny NW corner, left me a little queasy, as I didn't understand how could mean VEND. OK, a proper Thursday then, let's do this! Floundering was the name of the game for the first part of this solve, that's for sure. The best-known event in Navarre is the annual festival of San Fermín held in Pamplona in July. Navarre is one of the historic Basque districts: its Basque features are conspicuous in the north, but virtually absent on the southern fringes. Being in a transition zone also produces a highly variable climate, with summers that are a mix of cooler spells and heat waves, and winters that are mild for the latitude. Navarre is in the transition zone between Green Spain and semi-arid interior areas, and thus its landscapes vary widely across the region. The present-day province makes up the majority of the territory of the medieval Kingdom of Navarre, a long-standing Pyrenean kingdom that occupied lands on both sides of the western Pyrenees, with its northernmost part, Lower Navarre, located in the southwest corner of France. The capital city is Pamplona ( Basque: Iruña). Navarre ( English: / n ə ˈ v ɑːr/ Spanish: Navarra Basque: Nafarroa ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre (Spanish: Comunidad Foral de Navarra Basque: Nafarroako Foru Komunitatea ), is a foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Autonomous Community, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and Nouvelle-Aquitaine in France. Word of the Day: NAVARRE ( 32D: Pamplona's province).

ALL- IN-ONE PR INTER (62A: Home + 63A: Office + 66A: Convenience).

DETRO IT RED W INGS (53A: Atlantic + 55A: Division + 57A: Skaters).

MAR IE ANTO INETTE (24A: French + 27A: Cake + 30A: Advocate?).

VEND ING MACH INES (17A: Mechanical + 18A: Snack + 19A: Dispensers).

Each of the three regular-seeming 'answers' in the affected rows appears to be clued separately, but those clues are just clue parts-you need to read all three Across clues in that row in succession in order to get the clue for the full, 'I'-containing, grid-spanning answer (the 'covered' 'I's have no effect on Down answers). The rows that they are in look like they contain three Across answers, but the row is all one answer once you put 'I's in the black squares on those rows. That is: four Across answers that start on the far left-hand side of the grid (17A, 24A, 53A, and 62A) appear to be mere 3- or 4- letter answers but are actually 15-letter grid-spanning answers that continue onto subsequent squares in their respective rows. or a phonetic hint to answering four rows in this puzzle) -four 15-letter theme answers are impossible to see at first because their 'I's have been 'covered' by black squares.

#UTTERLY DESTROYED CROSSWORD CLUE MOVIE#

THEME: 'COVER YOUR EYES!' (40A: Warning before a gory movie scene.

Utterly destroyed crossword clue