Re: INLAND EMPIRE (cryptic film title?)

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In article <1jqil5xayk3gt$.10xmagclxul4l$.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>,
Davémon <davémon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

David Lynch (the film maker) is making a film called INLAND EMPIRE (his
caps) and his only comment about it, so far is "It's about a woman in
trouble, and it's a mystery".
I think the "it's a mystery" is telling us it's a cryptic clue of some
type. So if it were posed as a crossword clue, such as:
Q: "INLAND EMPIRE is about a woman in trouble"
INLAND EMPIRE is 'Named in peril'.

Aha! that's very close to my soloution which was "Dame in peril" (ie.
"woman in trouble") but I've got a spare 'n' - is it ever common to have
'loose fit' anagram solutions in crosswords?

In some thematic puzzles there may be an extra letter in the word play or in the defined word. Usually these extra letters, when strung together clue by clue, will have some significance. I'm not sure if a single en is of any significance. Maybe taken along with partial anagrams of his other film titles some theme with emerge?

Colin

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