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At the Movies mini crosswords

The At the Movies shelf in Theme Minis is 35 puzzles deep (18 are 5×5 and 17 are 6×6) and sits with the screen and stage themes. Every puzzle is small enough to finish in a short break.

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What is inside the At the Movies theme

Add up every clue in the theme and you get 382. The themed answers number 110, running from 3 to 6 letters long, with 2 to 5 of them in any one puzzle.

Every At the Movies puzzle, numbered

Here is the full run, in the game’s own order. A couple of each puzzle’s themed clues are quoted, without their answers; puzzles that may be a daily mini soon are shown without clues.

  1. Puzzle 1, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “___corn, the cinema snack” and “Arm that lifts the camera high”
  2. Puzzle 2, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Computer-made imagery, in brief” and “Good guy of the story”
  3. Puzzle 3, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Name of the picture” and “Spool that holds the footage”
  4. Puzzle 4, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Sound ___, a big filming space” and “___ house, cinema for indie films”
  5. Puzzle 5, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Cut the footage together” and “Perform a part on camera”
  6. Puzzle 6, 6×6 grid, 12 clues
  7. Puzzle 7, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Golden award statuette” and “Everyone appearing in front of the camera”
  8. Puzzle 8, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Swing the camera across a scene” and “Crew member who moves the gear”
  9. Puzzle 9, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Chunk of a film set in one place” and “Music written for a film”
  10. Puzzle 10, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Dangerous bit done by a double” and “Bit of dialogue to remember”
  11. Puzzle 11, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Disc that replaced the video cassette” and “Serious genre”
  12. Puzzle 12, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Everyone working behind the camera” and “Car ___, an action staple”
  13. Puzzle 13, 5×5 grid, 10 clues
  14. Puzzle 14, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Pole that holds the microphone” and “___ motion, the dramatic effect”
  15. Puzzle 15, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Line of theater seats” and “Red button label on a camcorder”
  16. Puzzle 16, 6×6 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Single continuous camera view” and “Where a scene is built and filmed”
  17. Puzzle 17, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Genre of secret agent films” and “Visual joke in a comedy”
  18. Puzzle 18, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Object an actor handles on set” and “Wheeled platform for a moving shot”
  19. Puzzle 19, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “One still picture of the film” and “Genre of battlefield films”
  20. Puzzle 20, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “New version of an old film” and “Word on the final frame”
  21. Puzzle 21, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Unedited, as footage” and “Back ___, a studio's outdoor filming area”
  22. Puzzle 22, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Company that makes the pictures” and “Old home video format”
  23. Puzzle 23, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Box office smash” and “Horror or comedy, for one”
  24. Puzzle 24, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Boom-held sound pickup” and “Background performer in a crowd”
  25. Puzzle 25, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Picture nobody went to see” and “Go slowly to black”
  26. Puzzle 26, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Word that stops the cameras” and “Walkway between rows of seats”
  27. Puzzle 27, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Sweeping three-hour saga” and “Brief appearance by a famous face”
  28. Puzzle 28, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Script label for an indoor scene” and “How long a film stays in theaters”
  29. Puzzle 29, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Replace the dialogue in another language” and “Unedited, as footage”
  30. Puzzle 30, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Genre of secret agent films” and “___corn, the cinema snack”
  31. Puzzle 31, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “Numbered attempt at a scene” and “Character an actor takes on”
  32. Puzzle 32, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “One who cuts the footage together” and “Cut the footage together”
  33. Puzzle 33, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “First film by a new director” and “Line of theater seats”
  34. Puzzle 34, 6×6 grid, 12 clues. Themed clues: “Re-record dialogue to match the picture” and “Genre of battlefield films”
  35. Puzzle 35, 5×5 grid, 10 clues. Themed clues: “What the boom picks up” and “Dangerous bit done by a double”

More At the Movies clues to try

Here are six clues the theme draws on; try to guess the answers before you play:

  • “___ part, a role with a few lines”
  • “Tight shot of a face (2 words)”
  • “Shadowy black-and-white crime style”
  • “What the gaffer sets up”
  • “The written words of the film”
  • “Shorten a scene”

Finding At the Movies on the theme shelf

Pressing All the themes in Theme Minis lists every theme with a progress bar; choose At the Movies to see its 35 puzzles, twelve per page. A Check or a Reveal word costs half a minute on the board.

The Theme Minis guide covers the clock and the streak.

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All 29 themes are on the Theme Minis topics page. For a different daily game, see the Rewind trivia branches or the Stepword ladders.