It’s Not Our First Rodeo With These Clues

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Manage newsletters The Daily Beast Crossword is where power, pop culture, and politics intersect—quite literally.   Designed to be more challenging throughout the week, you can test your knowledge with five puzzles each week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday. Play This Week's Puzzles Get in the Game With Matt Gaffney Thursday's puzzle was about the new Clint Eastwood-directed-and-starring-in movie, Cry Macho. The iconic 91-year-old actor and two-time Best Director winner's new flick is about rodeo riders, so when it came time for a title, "Not His First Rodeo" was too perfect to leave on the cutting room floor.    So off it went, but I wondered: How many times had this phrase been hit upon by writers reviewing the movie in recent weeks? It's just too perfect: Veteran director making a film about rodeos. You have to use it. Dared I look and see who else had?    I dared.   TV Guide's Kelly Connolly: "This is not Clint Eastwood's first rodeo."    The Globe and Mail's Aparita Bhandari: "Cry Macho isn't Eastwood's first rodeo, and he gives us what we expect"    Oh well. At least we were the first crossword to use this line...   Seen Cry Macho? Is it any good? Tweet us at #beastxword and we'll adjust our theatergoing schedule accordingly. Play This Week's Puzzles © Copyright 2021 The Daily Beast Company LLC  555 W. 18th Street, New York NY 10011  Privacy Policy If you are on a mobile device or cannot view the images in this message, click here to view this email in your browser. To ensure delivery of these emails, please add emails@thedailybeast.com to your address book. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, or think you have received this message in error, you can safely unsubscribe.