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by Mike Selinker

Solution: TERMINATOR 2

Each of the eighty fake musical act names is a letter bank for an actual musical act from the 80s (e.g., SLOB = LOS LOBOS). The musical act links to a snippet of one of their videos. Each video's title can bank down into a word that matches one of the one-word clues (e.g., LA BAMBA = BALM, which matches the clue "Salve"). The list of those words is the word list for the kriss kross. When those words are placed, the yellow letters spell THE FILM WHOSE THEME IS SURGEON'S "MINCE DOUBLY." The word SURGEON banks to GUNS 'N ROSES, and MINCE DOUBLY banks to YOU COULD BE MINE, which is the theme song of TERMINATOR 2.

Fake musical act Real musical act Video Clue Kriss kross word
DOVER TWINS STEVIE WONDER DO I DO Ronnie DIO
FER U FREUR DOOT DOOT Point DOT
HERBAL T'S THE BELLE STARS IKO IKO Fish KOI
LUKE PISA PAUL LEKAKIS BOOM BOOM Criminals MOB
BOXED TURNIPS BUSTER POINDEXTER HOT HOT HOT Despite THO
NC DRUM RUN DMC MARY MARY Force ARMY
SLOB LOS LOBOS LA BAMBA Salve BALM
MARK BENT KAMENBERT SHA LA LA LA Whip LASH
TONESHA SHEENA EASTON STRUT Grooves RUTS
PRIM SLYDE SIMPLY RED STARS Autocrat TSAR
ASHBY MELT THE ASSEMBLY NEVER NEVER Ehlers VERN
LID BOY BILLY IDOL REBEL YELL Gem BERYL
GAMINE ENIGMA SADENESS Europeans DANES
TOM DEWCALF FLEETWOOD MAC LITTLE LIES Land ISLET
BING DAY ANDY GIBB TIME IS TIME Stuff ITEMS
RICK SHEBA SHRIEKBACK NEMESIS Bearings MIENS
UNWIELDY HATS HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS IF THIS IS IT Change SHIFT
2 U U2 DESIRE Had SIRED
DJ NOSH DON JOHNSON HEARTBEAT Air BREATH
NYMPH CART TRACY CHAPMAN FAST CAR Makes CRAFTS
STEMHAND ADAM AND THE ANTS DOG EAT DOG Senility DOTAGE
PIONS POISON FALLEN ANGEL Rim FLANGE
SIGNE GENESIS ILLEGAL ALIEN Kind GENIAL
UNVOCABLE CLUB NOUVEAU LEAN ON ME Mailman MALONE
J. KANG CREW JACK WAGNER ALL I NEED Spiked NAILED
OKIE CARS RIC OCASEK EMOTION IN MOTION Prompt ONTIME
HEMP C.O.D. DEPECHE MODE PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE Release PAROLE
FRESH LIT THE FLIRTS PASSION Instruments PIANOS
HOWLSPIN WILSON PHILLIPS RELEASE ME Places REALMS
0 B 4 U UB40 RED RED WINE Spool REWIND
X-THIEF THE FIXX RED SKIES Bet RISKED
CLIMATE METALLICA NO REMORSE Speech SERMON
RICH POETS CHRISTOPHER CROSS SAILING Beacon SIGNAL
NO JACKETS JANET JACKSON ESCAPADE Forgot SPACED
SHRINKABLE CUD TOY IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS WHAT A WASTE Wrap SWATHE
MRS. Y BAND BRYAN ADAMS THIS TIME Belief THEISM
BIG FUN CARPETS BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN FEATURING STING THE RIVER Bloom THRIVE
MR. PATCHES THE CRAMPS GARBAGEMAN Director BERGMAN
OHMLETS THE MOTELS TOTAL CONTROL Fisk CARLTON
CHIPMUNKS GALORE MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP ARMED & READY Haulers DRAYMEN
SHINEFOB FISHBONE FREDDIE'S DEAD Moonscape FARSIDE
YEAH BIRD DEBBIE HARRY FREE TO FALL Balloon FLOATER
U.S. MOBILE BELOUIS SOME IMAGINATION Line MAGINOT
ANDRU DURAN DURAN NOTORIOUS Gas NITROUS
B.A. ABBA SUPER TROUPER Bearing POSTURE
SNEAKY D NAKED EYES PROMISES PROMISES Athlete SEMIPRO
FRYBEAN BRYAN FERRY SLAVE TO LOVE Compound SOLVATE
WAVEBOUND IQ QUEEN AND DAVID BOWIE UNDER PRESSURE Dissed SPURNED
TEMPURAS SUPERTRAMP IT'S RAINING AGAIN Voyeurism STARING
HOT DREAM MOTORHEAD EAT THE RICH Panacea THERIAC
MYSTIC KAROL KIRSTY MACCOLL A NEW ENGLAND Extricated WANGLED
BLUECAPS ESCAPE CLUB WILD WILD WEST Nuttiest WILDEST
C-LOAF FALCO VIENNA CALLING Cutting CLEAVING
MINK EULOGY KYLIE MINOGUE IT'S NO SECRET Tritest CORNIEST
PURE MYTH PETER MURPHY ALL NIGHT LONG Hatred LOATHING
IN THE CARDS CHRISTIAN DEATH ROMEO'S DISTRESS Joined MORTISED
DETHMAN THE DAMNED ALONE AGAIN OR Local REGIONAL
JOHN MILCAKES MICHAEL JACKSON LIBERIAN GIRL Clangy RINGABLE
THE GRAIN NIGHT RANGER SISTER CHRISTIAN Chapels CHANTRIES
TIGER WALSH THE WEATHER GIRLS IT'S RAINING MEN Expatriates EMIGRANTS
TOBY SHEP PET SHOP BOYS OPPORTUNITIES Blasts ERUPTIONS
SLADE KNIGHT TALKING HEADS ROAD TO NOWHERE Penned HANDWROTE
ADSE SADE SMOOTH OPERATOR Symbols METAPHORS
L-PHONICS PHIL COLLINS ONE MORE NIGHT Protecting MOTHERING
K.T. CLUMPS BAND PAULA ABDUL AND MC SKAT KAT OPPOSITES ATTRACT Histrionics OPERATICS
URSAE ERASURE A LITTLE RESPECT Iotas PARTICLES
YOUTH SWINE WHITNEY HOUSTON SO EMOTIONAL Chromatic SEMITONAL
VALOR TUX ULTRAVOX PASSING STRANGERS Thinnings TAPERINGS
TRIPHONES THE POINTER SISTERS NEUTRON DANCE Layer UNDERCOAT
MY CHIN ADJUSTER THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN NEVER UNDERSTAND Sated UNSTARVED
CHLORINE LIONEL RICHIE RUNNING WITH THE NIGHT Heights WUTHERING
E.C. RUTH THE CURE FASCINATION STREET Canoodles FORNICATES
JET LADY HORNS DARYL HALL AND JOHN OATES ADULT EDUCATION Immunized INOCULATED
WB LIQUORMEN MIQUEL BROWN SO MANY MEN SO LITTLE TIME Blackness MELANOSITY
NOMAD MADONNA PAPA DON'T PREACH Fifth PENTACHORD
W.Z. VERONA WARREN ZEVON SPLENDID ISOLATION Bodies PLANETOIDS
HITPACKER CHEAP TRICK DREAM POLICE Spoke PROCLAIMED
CRUDE SHOW CROWDED HOUSE SOMETHING SO STRONG Crushing SMOTHERING
OLD HERMITS THE TIMELORDS DOCTORIN' THE TARDIS Meteorites ACHONDRITES
FRITZ'S WAXBOUND VEG WE'VE GOT A FUZZBOX AND WE'RE GONNA USE IT INTERNATIONAL RESCUE Lesions ULCERATIONS