![]() I really thought AMERICANAH was AMERICAN (space) AH, like. Crowding names together is a recipe for unpleasantness. There's no name that shouldn't be here, but you gotta watch how you dole them out. And with the not-exceedingly-famous AMERICANAH running right through the same area!? Rough stuff. But the Zulu kingdom was in southern Africa, whereas I thought "Hang loose" was associated with Hawaii and surf culture ( it is), so I'm very confused. looks like it was a mid-'80s TV miniseries. ![]() wait, is that even a movie? And is that even how it's spelled? Hang on. The only SHAKA I really know is from the movie title "SHAKA Zulu". Second, the SHAKA part of SHAKA SIGN!?!? I have no idea where I pulled the term from. Also, not a name I've ever known anyone to have, so no part of it is inferable. First of all, SERKIS?! No idea ( 29A: Andy who voiced Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings"). What on god's green earth is going on with the SHAKA SIGN / SERKIS crossing. Now, CARDI B is exceedingly famous, so even if you didn't know CIARA (you're forgiven), you should probably have been able to figure out that "C"-but still, this puzzle is not at all careful with proper nouns. Crossing names are always a potential problem, but ideally the names at least come from different fields, especially if the fame of at least one is not universal. Crossing two figures from the hip-hop / R&B realm is about as good an idea as crossing two figures from any realm, i.e. The grid feels like it's trying to make up for a fairly straightforward, fairly light theme with a pretty toughly-clued grid, heavy on odd / ambiguous cluing and *especially* heavy on proper nouns. Every other themer subject is dishing, but this trial judge just wants to hear? The answers just don't land as perfectly as they should. And WANTS TO HEAR MORE isn't like the other answers at all. SHARES AN ACCOUNT doesn't really convey *gossip* as heavily as the other phrases. " HAS"!? HAS ALL THE JUICY DETAILS-that's a weak verb compared to the rest of them. A few of the phrases felt a bit forced in terms of their phrasing. It's an interesting idea of a theme, but the execution didn't quite work for me. A television miniseries, starring and produced by Lupita Nyong'o, was in development for HBO Max, but then was later dropped. It was Adichie's third novel, published on by Alfred A. The novel traces Ifemelu's life in both countries, threaded by her love story with high school classmate Obinze. Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to attend university. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. university) -Īmericanah is a 2013 novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S. Word of the Day: AMERICANAH( 14D: Best-selling Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie novel whose protagonist leaves Nigeria for a U.S. WANTS TO HEAR MORE (114A: "And the up-and-coming trial judge.").AIRS THEIR DIRTY LAUNDRY (89A: "The athlete in the locker room.STIRS UP DRAMA (72A: "The cooking show contestant.SPILLS THE TEA (59A: "The Boston Harbor worker. ![]() HAS ALL THE JUICY DETAILS (41A: "The smoothie bar worker.SHARES AN ACCOUNT (23A: "A lover of gossip, the Netflix user.THEME: "Gossip Session" - gossip-related verb phrases clued as if the subjects were engaged different activities / members of different professions:
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