Puzzles

If you like films, be sure to come to FilmSoc trivia! This Thursday 5pm at Manning Bar. Cats Quick

Target

Minimum of 4 letters per word. 10 words: You’ve got plenty of soul 20 words: I believe you truly are a Jellicle cat 30 words: You are the Jellicle Choice

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Omega Sudoku Week 2 Edition Solutions

Classic and indie film streaming service free for USyd students! (6) 27 Across? (8,9) Classic Ryan Gosling sadboi movie (5) Director of last year’s miniseries The Irishman (8) Orphan musical! (6) Filmic technique stunningly employed in Battleship Potemkin and Rocky (7) Highest grossing film ever (7) A thrilling movie might make you do this! (6) Very well blocked? (8) Sandler and the Safdies’ snubbed silver screen sensation (5,4) Billy Wilder’s film about a sharehouse of sorts (9) Lulu Wang’s 2019 film starring Awkwafina (8) This hit film paid off for 13 Across (6) ross? (8,9) 8 9A/10A 11 13 15 16 19 22 24 27A/18D 28 31 32 ACROSS

Film is structured to please this sort of gaze (4) Vertigo’s Scottie and Body Double’s Jake embody this sort of spectator (6) Moaning magical maiden (6) Characteristic of Snake Plissken, Elle Driver, and Mike Wazowski (3-4) First name of the director who made Gemini Man and Life of Pi (3) What a good score should be (8) Body of work (6) Magnificent romcom with icon Cher and Face/Off legend Nicolas Cage (10) Ravenclaw quidditch player and first girlfriend to Harry Potter (3) Homages (8) See 27 Across 1930’s sex symbol West (3) Director of Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette (7) Face/Off legend John Travolta is an ambassador for this airline (6) See 12 Down Expose one’s true character (6) The Winter Soldier, Live and Let Die, and The Rise of Skywalker (4) Number of times Robert Downey Jr has portrayed Ironman in a film (3) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 12D/25D 14 17 18 20 21 23 25 26 29 30 DOWN Pop superstar who gives an enthralling performance as Bombalurina (6) Venue for the Jellicle Ball (8) 20 Down, really (9) You might visit the Tomb, Blimp’s, or the Siamese for this meal (5) This Latin-named Jellicle is Rum Tum Tugger’s biggest fan (8) Mr Mistoffelees’ catchphrase (6) Skimbleshanks’ haunt (7) Jennyanydots is Macavity’s first (7) Oh, well, I never, was there ever, a cat so ___ as Magical Mr Mistoffelees? (6) My mind may be wandering, but ___, I believe it is Old Deuteronomy! (1,7) Condition of the Hidden Paw’s coat (from neglect) (5) Actor who delightfully portrays Macavity the Mystery Cat (5,4) Francesca Hayward gives a wonderful debut performance as this cat (8) These ___ productions are all very well! (6) ACROSS

What Cats is about, according to Andrew Lloyd Webber (4) Characteristic of Deuteronomy (3,3) How you might describe the rituals of the Jellicles (6) These kittens do not get drilled in the ___ troupe (7) Organ glass-green for Skimbleshanks, sunken-in for Macavity (3) Bustopher Jones, compared to the other cats (8) Apt description for the St. James’s Street Cat (3,3) Up up up ___ the Heaviside Layer! (2,2) Morning beverage you can have weak or strong (3) Macavity, Mr Mistoffelees, and Skimbleshanks can do this (8) Old Deuteronomy has a strong one in her first scene (4) The Theatre Cat (3) Grizabella perhaps (7) Actor who portrays the Marvelous Magical Mr Mistoffelees, ___ Davidson (6) Yes, no, ___ Eye! (1,2,1,2) Macavity and Firefrorefiddle (6) The Rum Tum Tugger is a terrible one (4) Garment played with by Mungojerrie (3) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 12 14 17 18 20 21 23 25 26 29 30 DOWN 8 9 10 11 13 15 16 19 22 24 27 28 31 32

Get it

Combine the two images shown to find the answer! The solution is also the answer to 31 Across in this week’s film crossword.

Sudoku

Puzzles by Cloud Runner. Solutions next week.

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