Enigmarch, Day 10: ZERO

[tahnan]

I like the idea here; I'm not thrilled with the execution. But it's better to keep posting than to let things slide.

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My Hero, Zero!

If I learned anything in academia, it's that zero is the additive identity: whatever you add to it doesn't change. (If I've learned anything as a programmer, it's how to index.)

1. Mid '90s manga + ERA-promoting group founded in 1966


2. 1977 debut single (or its 1985 debut novel namesake) + Adventure Time main character


3. 2009 two-player card game with a metapuzzle + the absence of light


4. Track 2 of a Phish album + a defender in Seven Against Thebes


5. Free newspaper (and city nickname) of Cape May, NJ + Andy Warhol-founded magazine


6. Feature of fixed-length digital displays and agents with a license to kill + Lionel Richie-written song that hit #1 on Billboard's country chart


7. Center of a nuclear detonation + Point of contention between two people


8. Allegorical 1946 ballet + Cardinal direction


9. Documentary about the subprime mortgage crisis + Socially dominant animal


10. New wave song of 1983 + Iris Murdoch novel


11. Part One of Gravity's Rainbow + Red, Yellow, Black, or North, among many others


12. It comes between Neuromancer and Mona Lisa Overdrive + Germany's largest island


13. Bottom of a temperature scale + Movie for which Christopher Plummer won an Oscar


14. Alt-rock band founded in 1989 in Alabama + Relative of a swallow or saw-wing

• 1946 song or 2004 biopic about its most notable singer (2)


• 1970s Best Picture nominee (2)


• 1992 cult classic (mostly) set in the Middle Ages (2)


• Book with a character named Crêpe Suzette (or the 80s movie bomb it inspired, or the UK #2 single from the movie) (1)


• Children of millennials, typically (2)


• Company based in Cognac, France (3)


• Part of an offboarding process (4)


• Potential nominee for Best Actress (1)


• Punk band founded in Gainesville in 1992 (1)


• Sloppy joe ingredient (3)


• Speaker of the line "Hand me down the shark repellent bat-spray!" (3)


• TV show set at Bayside High School (6)


• Tyrone with an unusual number of digits (4)


• Xander Berkeley, Timothy Omundson, or anyone else in That Guy...Who Was in That Thing (1)

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(EDIT: an earlier version of this puzzle was missing the top clue in the second list. The management apologizes for the inconvenience.)