Mike Shenk’s Wall Street Journal crossword, “Jump Cuts”—Jim P’s overview

Let’s begin with the title. In filmmaking, a soar minimize is when a section of a steady scene is minimize out and the motion of the movie seems to “jump” from one a part of the scene to a future a part of the scene, thus giving the movie a specific amount of vitality. You see this loads in montages the place there are a number of soar cuts in a row. (Here’s an instance.)

In at present’s puzzle, every theme reply “jumps” throughout a block to a separate entry. The longer entry clues all the row (each entries) whereas the shorter entry is a phrase that may be a synonym of “cut.”

Wall St Journal crossword resolution · “Jump Cuts” · Mike Shenk · Thu., 8.25.22

• 17a. [Oscar-winning producer of “Gone With the Wind”] / 19a. [Cut]:  DAVID O. SELZ / NICK.
• 26a. [Cut] / 29a. [Night vision devices]: SNIP / ER SCOPES.
• 47a. [Tree with creamy white blossoms] / 49a. [Cut]: FLOWERIN / G ASH.
• 62a. [Cut] / 63a. [Development influencer]: PARE / NTING STYLE.

Longtime WSJ solvers will acknowledge such a theme as one in every of editor Mike Shenk’s mainstays. It feels prefer it’s been some time since we’ve seen one, however after I learn the title, I believed this is perhaps what was happening.

I wouldn’t say I like this theme sort, but it surely works, particularly on this case with a very good title. I did have a tough time with FLOWERING ASH since I’d by no means heard of it, and I needed to depend on some actually musty grey cells to drag out DAVID O. SELZNICK, particularly that S crossing one other correct identify, WES Studi. (But I respect this Cherokee actor being given some puzzle time. You may additionally have seen him in The Last of the Mohicans and Mystery Men.)

Top fill: DELOREAN, PANCREAS, GLITCH, GAZEBO, and STARKIST. (Aside: We have a Sunkist model and a STARKIST model; why is there no Moonkist model?)

Clues of notice:

• 15a. [Some is social]. MEDIA. I might’ve been completely pleased with an “are” on this clue. If somebody desires to elucidate why “is” is right right here, be happy.
• 25a. [Manhattan setting]. BAR. Where you’d discover a Manhattan cocktail.
• 7d. [Gore’s time in the Senate?]. IDES. I’m positive you found out by now that this isn’t about Al Gore. Rather, it’s a grotesque allusion to Caesar’s assassination.
• 49d. [Unforeseen setback]. GLITCH. We additionally would have accepted [___ in the Matrix].

3.5 stars.

Olivia Mitra Framke and Andrea Carla Michaels’ New York Times crossword—Ben’s overview

NYT #0825 – 08/25/2022

There was a pleasant sense of an “aha” as soon as I bought the revealer on at present’s NYT from Olivia Mitra Framke and Andrea Carla Michaels :

• 20A: Buckeye-Hawkeye-Yellowhammer — OHIOWALABAMA
• 27A: Pine Tree-Cornhusker-Sunflower — MAINEBRASKANSAS
• 47A: Green Mountain-Treasure-Last Frontier — VERMONTANALASKA
• 54A: U.S. geographical grouping…or a touch to 20A, 27A, and 47A — TRI-STATE AREA

We’ve bought three TRI-STATE AREAs – OHIO-IOWA-ALABAMA, MAINE-NEBRASKA-KANSAS, and VERMONT-MONTANA-ALASKA, all set as much as overlap on high of each other

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDVOZLKSLRc

65A: Patsy Cline, for one — ALTO

Happy Thursday!