3-Word Phrases
If you don't win, perhaps you'll at least go out in one of these luminous conclusions
In a viral song, Drake was caught in his feelings & asked this name, "Do you love me? Are you riding?"
Kiki
"SCTV" alum John
+
a song by the Miracles
- "Around"
=
this 50 Cent title
Candy Shop
1993:
"Life finds a way"
Dr. Ian Malcolm
Usually said with a satisfying flourish, this French word is proclaimed when something appears as if by magic
Voilà
The opposite of dead & buried, this 3-word phrase was the title of a 1985 hit by Simple Minds
Alive & Kicking
An Erykah Badu song says, "I think ya better call" this title guy--"but you can't use my phone"
Tyrone
Drake's real first name
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IRL New York "Hotel" in "Home Alone 2"
=
this actress
Aubrey Plaza
1997:
"It's been 84 years..."
Rose
Rejoice, sinners! The Latin for "indulgence" or "grace" gives us this adjective meaning easily pardoned
Venial
Riders on the London underground are familiar with this equivalent of "watch your step"
Mind the Gap
This blues musician named an album & song "Lucille"
B. B. King
An anatomical exhibition in Vegas
x 3
=
this 2022 film with Pete Davidson
Bodies Bodies Bodies
2002:
"I don't like sand"
Anakin
In "Foundation " Isaac Asimov pithily wrote that this "is the last refuge of the incompetent"
Violence
From Mercury Control in 1962: "Pilot John Glenn is reporting" this; "He is giving routine reports reading off his instruments"
All systems go
In a song by the Beatles, we're told this alliterative man likes to yell obscenities at the Queen
Mean mr. Mustard
"Superfly" singer Mayfield
+
"MMMBop" band
=
this "B Mile" director
Curtis Hanson
1994:
"So, you're telling me there's a chance"
Lloyd Christmas
Are you terse, concise or taciturn like the Spartans? Then this adjective describes you (but maybe not the clue)
Iaconic
A 1944 hit song popularized this title meaning to emphasize the good stuff
"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive"
In this Red Hot Chili Peppers song, the title anti-heroine robs banks & steals hearts
Dani California
Title of a Gene Kelly film
- "rain" +
a "Psycho" death location =
this line from a hit 2014 Becky G song
Singin' in the shower
2001:
"One does not simply walk into Mordor"
Boromir
81.8% as long as "conceivable", in chemistry it's the term for the number of electron pairs an atom has to share with another atom
Covalence