Everything is Ending (Again)
Across
- 4. Type of "slump" associated with the neon-lit 1980s
- 5. A smiling pile of waste that supposedly murdered conversation
- 6. Haircut style featured in three-minute television movies
- 7. 2020s social media that will be considered "classic" in 2050
- 8. Movement by a wiggling man that signaled a 1950s collapse
- 10. Comparison of modern youth to a glass ornament in a hurricane
- 11. Digital characters that youth buy hats for
- 13. Frequency that mothers sighed about in the fifties
- 15. Bread filmed by youth in their afternoons
- 18. 1960s dream of a mobile living space
- 19. 1990s attitude that offended the older generation
- 21. Pattern paired with pomatum in the era of the pelvic tilt
- 26. Something 2000s youth were accused of being unable to read
- 27. Current attention spans are reportedly shorter than one
- 29. Flowers the 1960s youth were compared to for being "too soft"
- 31. The facial expression 1950s youth practiced instead of division
- 33. What 1950s teenagers looked like in leather jacket "sausages"
- 35. 1980s accessory bought with parents' hard-earned cash
- 37. Word for inactivity that became a high art form in the 90s
- 39. Burning cabinet smell associated with the 1960s youth
- 40. Something current youth care about more than oil changes
- 41. Where grandfathers were busy being miserable
- 44. Lipstick shade sought by women in 1984
- 46. Musical instrument swapped for the traditional work ethic
- 47. Type of couch associated with 1990s cereal-staring youth
- 48. 1990s music sounded like this appliance having a panic attack
Down
- 1. To "___ quit" rather than climb the corporate ladder
- 2. Digit that evolved specialized clicking skills in the 2000s
- 3. Complaint that children are dancing for invisible audiences
- 9. Color-blind bolt that seemingly dressed the eighties youth
- 12. The great irony of graying hair
- 14. First name of the author Mindell
- 15. Infinite action associated with the current digital catastrophe
- 16. What eighties youth supposedly wanted to turn the earth into
- 17. Part of a snare drum that turned 1950s spines to jelly
- 20. Type of dog 2050 elders will complain to
- 21. What 1960s kids spoke of while adults tried to have a quiet war
- 22. How a person over fifty always views the future
- 23. What actually hurts when people blame the music
- 24. Material used for vests that replaced leather jackets
- 25. Fabric that signaled the arrival of the nineties era
- 28. What elders see in the youth of their own fading relevance
- 30. Temple of plastic and air conditioning in the eighties
- 32. Once-pure device that future elders will miss
- 34. Synthesized sounds of a dying robot in eighties tapes
- 36. Sentient plant that 1960s parents wondered if they had raised
- 38. Future complaint about youth in the year 2050
- 42. 1950s grease used to lubricate a scalp like a locomotive
- 43. Machines that 1980s music video stars jumped in front of
- 45. Awards given for coming in eighth place