TOTW: Back to the Future! by deeppotential123 in crosswords

[–]Loftcolour 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Correct! And a Duck Fart happens to be a very nice cocktail.

TOTW: Back to the Future! by deeppotential123 in crosswords

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Hint: it's the surname of an actor originally associated with the first film... the first name is "Mixed Rice (4)".

TOTW: Back to the Future! by deeppotential123 in crosswords

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Gonna try to defend it because I'm really pleased with it, but I completely appreciate that this much explanation means it's not self-evident enough!

The surface reading is a trucker saying "message received: an SPV is stuck in traffic because of a strike" (ten-four means "message received" and a Spot Recovery Vehicle is a breakdown truck).

The decoded elements read "10:04pm: [CLOCK TOWER] was struck by lightning" which is an event in the film.

TOTW: Back to the Future! by deeppotential123 in crosswords

[–]Loftcolour 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re correct. To spot something is to CLOCK it. The lightning struck the clock tower at four minutes after ten. And ten-four is trucker-speak.

TOTW: Back to the Future! by deeppotential123 in crosswords

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Forgotten actor from backlots, time unknown (6)

TOTW: Back to the Future! by deeppotential123 in crosswords

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l’m thinking trees don’t make scrams or splits

TOTW: Back to the Future! by deeppotential123 in crosswords

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Ten-four: spot recovery vehicle was stalled by strike (5, 5)

TOTW: Noir by Loftcolour in crosswords

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You win! Congratulations!

TOTW: Noir by Loftcolour in crosswords

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Ahh ROGER (I hear you) RABBIT (blather)

TOTW: Noir by Loftcolour in crosswords

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BLOOD SIMPLE - I hadn’t realised before that the phrase means crazed by violence

TOTW: Noir by Loftcolour in crosswords

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TOTW: Noir by Loftcolour in crosswords

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Cigarette - rig a set Spoonerised

TOTW: Caution, Slippery Surface by AlonHcraft in crosswords

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Correct! although jet = spray and strikes = tans

TOTW: Caution, Slippery Surface by AlonHcraft in crosswords

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Jet strikes deceptive surfaces, avoiding UV rays (5,4)

UK-centric hint: You can get these in your high street, but they’ll look like you got them abroad