Notes

I built this around Diao Yi-nan's great film Black Coal Thin Ice. After that I just tried to find a category for each word. I was originally going to make the ice one something like "actions that lead to a face-off" and other than a second penalty, I couldn't think of a good fourth to go with score and fight (maybe slash?) and I just didn't like them in verb form. You're welcome (thought I guess that turned into including tonsil hockey so also sorry...). I made this fairly quickly because I wanted to test the new support I added to the site for making connections puzzles. When I made it, I thought this was on the easy side, but that probably is dependent on whether you're familiar with classic noir and incredibly loose Stephen King adaptations.