other Washington Post Sunday crossword, December 11 (contains answers)

Cw-051211

Title: A Modern (?) Film Festival
Theme entries: titles of movies made in black and white by choice.

23A, With 25 Across, 1968 George Romero film: NIGHT OF THE
25A, See 23 Across: LIVING DEAD
31A, 1974 Mel Brooks film: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
49A, 1994 Kevin Smith film: CLERKS
50A, 1980 David Lynch film: THE ELEPHANT MAN
65A, Theme of our film festival: BLACK AND WHITE
75A, 1993 Steven Spielberg film: SCHINDLER’S LIST
80A, 1994 Tim Burton film: ED WOOD
99A, 1984 Woody Allen film: BROADWAY DANNY ROSE
106A, 1980 Martin Scorsese film: RAGING BULL
108A, 1983 Francis Ford Coppola film: RUMBLE FISH

Things I learned, with web links so you can learn them too:

56A, Chalons combatant: HUN
64A, Tell’s canton: URI [this is a good read, actually]
84A, Abbey Theatre playwright: O’CASEY
116A, Willard of the ring: JESS
5D, Corcovado mountain site: RIO [oh, that mountain]
8D, Ghanaian region: ASHANTI
9D, Crenshaw, e.g.: MELON
12D, Ouzo flavoring source: ANISEED
17D, A Chaplin: SYD
24D, Yangtze feeder: HAN
33D, ___-lance (pit viper): FER-DE
41D, Kate Nelligan role: ELENI
45D, Do a cakewalk: STRUT
53D, Dovekie, for one: AUK [wow, they’re cute, plus they live on Svalbard]
55D, “Nothing,” in legal phrases: NIHIL
67D, Importune: DUN [I’d never heard this use of either of these words.]
78D, Foe of 56 Across at Chalons: ROMAN
80D, Best of theater: EDNA
87D, 1847 Poe poem: ULALUME
107D, Traveller’s rider: LEE
110D, Composer Delibes: LEO

Overall:
I messed up no squares in this one, which is a nice break from my streak of sucking. It helped that this was a really easy theme with a whopping eleven theme entries. 21 things I had to look up afterwards is obscenely high. It makes the embarrassing 16 of the other week look like I was doing well.