First NYT Crossword
This is the speed at which a passage of music is played was clued as "Relative speed" (5 across)
What is Tempo
This film is based on a cautionary sci-fi thriller novel about billionaire John Hammond, who clones dinosaurs for a theme park on Isla Nublar, highlighting the dangers of genetic engineering, corporate corruption, and chaos theory
What is Jurassic Park
This is a phenomenon which takes place roughly every 3 years whereby earth's only permanent natural satellite appears bluish due to smoke or dust particles in the atmosphere.
What is a blue moon
This man started three separate candy companies which all failed before perfecting a carmel and milk chocalate recipe, to be become known as the chocalate king and founder of this candy company that has its own Theme park in Pennsylvania
What/Who is Milton Hershey(s)
Some people think that the first day of the week is monday, due to it being the start of the normal work week, the week actually starts of this day
What is Sunday
The clue for this religion was "Japanese ancestor-worship" (9 across)
What is Shintoism
This 1990 children's picture book turned into a hit movie series was about a foul ogre who leaves his swamp to see the world, meets various fairytale creatures, and ultimately marries an ugly princess
What is Shrek(!)
Blue is the name of the main character in this 2000's kid's show
What is Blue's Clues
Theodor Geisel who went by this pseudonym had his first book "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" rejected by 27 publishers and on his way to his apartment to burn the book an old friend of his agreed to publish it
Who is Dr. Seuss
Although many people believe that camels hold water in their humps, they are actually just filled with this
What is fat or fatty tissue
This word is a slur when used to describe people but the appropriate term for animals which are as the NYT clued "Of mixed origin" (7 down)
What is Mongrel
This disney film is based on an 1881 cautionary tale where a mischievous marionette on his journey was turned into a donkey, killed a talking cricket, and is in the end hung to death on a tree for for his persistent disobedience
What is Pinocchio
Created in 2019 by the co-founder and then CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey, today this social media site serves as a competitor to the company which created it, unique for having no ads on its site and less data gathered from users
What is Bluesky
Now with a networth of 15 billion dollars this founder of the largest vacuum company in the world created 5,127 prototypes over fifteen years falling deep into debt before the 5,128th version of his dual-cyclone vacuum cleaner finally worked.
Who is (James) Dyson
Although the earth's atmosphere makes the sun look yellow, our galaxy's sun is actually this color
What is white
These special types of verbs that end in "ing" was clued in the crossword as "Verbal nouns" (7 across)
What are Gerunds
This film is based on a book called Q & A about the story of Ram Mohammad Thomas, a broke Mumbai waiter who wins 1 billion rupees on a quiz show but is arrested for cheating
What is Slumdog Millionaire
Paul Karason nicknamed Papa Smurf became famous for his skin being turned permanently blue which was caused by years of consuming and applying this to his skin giving him argyria
What is Silver
Akiro Morita a physicist who founded this company started off selling electric rice cookers that consistently undercooked and burnt the rice before pivoting to selling tape recorders and transistor radios and today is a major tech company
What is Sony
Although many people think that bulls hate and charge at the color red that is impossible given they cannot see the color red, instead they charge at red flags in rodeos because of this
What is the motion
This is the team name for an english football premier league but the word was described in the New York Times as "Heedless persons" (8 across)
What are Hotspurs
This film is based on a book where private eye Eddie Valiant investigates the death of a comic strip star and discovers the killer is a magical genie.
What is Who Framed (Censored) Roger Rabbit
Nicknamed the blue city, Chefchaouen located in this country is made up of buildings and walls that are almost entirely different shades of blue, with some claiming the purpose the cities coloring was to attract tourists, and others to repel mosquitoes
What is Morocco
When this man first auditioned in a film, the director told him to stop wasting people's time and suggested he become a dishwasher, yet he persisted and became the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Who is Sidney Poitier
Many children are taught in schools that the declaration of independence was signed on July 4th, 1776 however the first signer John Hancock, and most of the 55 other signers of the document signed it on this date
What is August 2nd, 1776