So I managed to get the FINAL from 4D: _ 4 but still wasn't really thinking about why it might be circled. I think I just wanted to see if I was right about BRACKETOLOGY without actually looking at the clue directly. I wasn't solving Downs-only, but sometimes, especially if I'm not speed-solving, my habits of only looking at Downs *and* only looking at short stuff first really take over. But weirdly I never looked at the BRACKETOLOGY clue. I could see that the upper longer answer was probably gonna be BRACKET, something, probably BRACKETOLOGY (a word I know well, from decades of paying attention to this tourney earlier in my life, when I followed sports more closely). At this point, I wasn't paying those circled squares much mind. The important thing was I remembered "oh, right, it's Tourney Week," so I knew where this was going. OK, so STORY was wrong, that's not really important. ![]() DaCosta was the first African American woman to have a #1 film at the American box office. In August 2020, DaCosta was hired to direct The Marvels, becoming the youngest filmmaker to direct a Marvel film, beating the record set by Ryan Coogler. She also directed the horror film Candyman (2021). ![]() She wrote and directed the crime thriller film Little Woods (2018), winning the Nora Ephron Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival. Nia DaCosta (born November 8, 1989) is an American film director and screenwriter. Word of the Day: NIA DaCosta ( 37A: "Candyman" director DaCosta). ![]() 38A: What lower-seeded 51-Across participants hope to become (CINDERELLA TEAMS).20A: Process of picking winners in 51-Across (BRACKETOLOGY).FINAL at Four-Down, ELITE at Eight-Down, SWEET at Sixteen-Across): "rounds"!) at their appropriate number (i.e. THEME: MARCH MADNESS (51A: Annual college basketball tourney, rounds of which can be found in the circled squares at their appropriate numbers) - an NCAA Basketball Tournament theme with various "rounds" of the tourney (FINAL Four, ELITE Eight, SWEET Sixteen) appearing in circles (i.e.
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