turkey
Ice cream

.

I like apple and boot here. Boot for smashing spiders. Apple because it's a food.

I'd argue that it can't be exactly those two words. If so, it would mean

1. eb clued 'baklava' instead of 'food' for the only remaining food words.
2. eb completely ignored n-1.

Apple, Ice Cream, Turkey, Boot would be 'food - 3' imo. Even 'food - unlimited' should make us think Apple, Ice Cream, Turkey, and then skipping boot. So why baklava instead of food? My guess is to show that we are only doing deserts (and to get Turkey). If it's those remaining two, what are the 6 Arachnophobia words in

Film
Web
Torch
Genius
Boot
Turkey
Ice Cream
Apple

?

I think I'm good with going boot first here, I just don't see how apple is also ours.

I can see the reasoning. Boot

Boot is blue.

Ok, so just to reiterate, Boot was our first makeup word. If the final words were Turkey, Ice Cream, Apple, Boot, eb clues 'food - 3' and the game is over. I think we have to completely remove Apple, and guess one more Arachnophobia word. Log was our next make up word (then fighter -> revealed, and back...which I think was just a guess)

Apple - disregard due to cluing logic
Back
Bermuda
Compound
Grace - Final Ali clue?
Hood - Likely Ali clue
Log
Marble
Mug - Final Ali clue?
Switch - Final Ali clue?
Van

I really just think it's log here.

I'm not 100% where you are in your in-depth analysis, but I agree with your reasoning that Apple would trigger n-1, and he was just going for the most direct and most obvious words were. Which we immediately nabbed.

So we're back to Arachnophobia.

A spider crawling up your Back is a staple.

I don't remember the movie enough to know if the spiders came from Bermuda.

Or if they were terrorizing people at a Compound.

Log sounds like something spiders would climb on/in.

Was there a Van scene in the movie?

Or the Hood of a car?

I don't see Grace unless there was an actress/character by that name.

Marble, Mug, Switch I don't see.

Log and if we're still alive we keep thinking.

If log is good you guys can be done thinking imo

I mean if it's black, and we don't lose.

You can stop thinking.

Nice job getting there, but goddamn that was painful to watch.

Wait, you guys have been thinking?

im guessing eb's head was something like:

"ok, they guessed queen...that's understandable. The list is correct so ill go unlimited with a slam dunk 2 clue"

*wall of text from TBob*

"god dammit you guys"

great job blue; I wasn't gonna get through my list in 2

ya'll got my canada words perfectly

Ali was for grace, as he was very a graceful (float like a butterfly...) boxer

and then mug was the last Ali word, which is a boxing term, but bleh; but I woulda combined it with marble using ceramic or something on a 3rd turn if you got grace

without grace, was gonna have to get some teacup clue that I hadn't yet figured out to get marble/grace/mug

Very close.

"I expect queen here, but they could get a lot of them."

"Okay, they're missing genius completely, but at least the next 2 are right."

"Oh, sweet! Other team gifted us genius. This is going to be easy!"

"Oh ****, Neil doesn't know what baklava is."

"Oh good, Bob does and has nailed the two words for it."

"Wait why is Bob saying boot is no good? Just pick the two leftovers."

"WTF no it isn't apple. What are you doing? Also fighter isn't even eligible."

And then you finally get there.

Also, in what world is baklava mildly sweet? That **** is drenched in honey or syrup.

In a world where people get mad if the sweet tea isn't 2 parts sugar 1 part tea.

Fair, haha

Oh man see it's been so long I forgot he was in that.

Sheesh that came out in 1990? So I probably saw it in 1991, when it came out for rental, so..... 33 years ago. Woof.

AND YES THERE WAS A QUEEN SPIDER IN IT. VINDICATION.

Neil & I are up. If this is even, I'm red.

Africa
Car
Center
Copper
Cycle
Drop
Fork
Kangaroo
Log
Mail
Millionaire
Moscow
Mouse
Opera
Palm
Pool
Rock
Screen
Seal
Shoe
Soul
Triangle
Unicorn
Wall
Whip

It's odd; Neil is up

blump

Heh was just pulling this up since I finished dinner.

Sydney - 2