Martial art with bamboo swords / TUE 9-20-22 / Accolades presented in Nashville / Local produce org. / Four-letter member of the Four Corners / Email action with paper clip icon / Glutes developed while dancing at the Moulin Rouge

Constructor: Rebecca Goldstein and Rachel Fabi

Relative difficulty: Easy-Medium

THEME: 3x — wacky phrases made out of 3 identical components, where the first two components are one unit and the third is another:

Theme answers:

• "TUT TUT, TUT" (17A: Verbal disapproval of a boy king?)
• CHOW CHOW CHOW (28A: Food for a sturdy Chinese dog?)
• "ZOOM ZOOM" ZOOM (47A: Conference call for Mazda's marketing team?)
• CAN-CAN CAN (64A: Glutes developed while dancing at the Moulin Rouge?)

Word of the Day: CHOW CHOW (28A) —

The Chow Chow is a spitz-type of dog breed originally from northern China. The Chow Chow is a sturdily built dog, square in profile, with a broad skull and small, triangular, erect ears with rounded tips. The breed is known for a very dense double coat that is either smooth or rough. The fur is particularly thick in the neck area, giving it a distinctive ruff or mane appearance. The coat may be shaded/self-red, black, blue, cinnamon/fawn, or cream. (wikipedia)

Ooh, a good reason to keep this short today: personal bias! These are my friends. Good for them. So happy to see their names. This feels like a theme I've seen before, like, a long time ago, maybe, and maybe more Monday than Tuesday (if such a distinction exists). The theme presented zero challenge, is what I'm saying. Once you get the TUT string, the others don't require more than a cursory glance at the clue, and maybe not even that if you're just humming along and decide to risk a guess on a themer based solely on the crosses you have in place. In retrospect, I can't say I recommend this strategy, as it got me CHOO-CHOO CHOO at first, and then when I very quickly looked at the clue, I really only picked up "Chinese" and thought "is CHOO a Chinese ... vegetable of some kind?" Very dumb brain glitch. Speed kills, folks. But for the others, I just had to see "Mazda" to get the ZOOM one and I don't think I even looked at the CAN one ... which is too bad, because the clues are really where the action's at, with a theme like this. Speaking of CHOO-CHOO CHOO ([Shoe designer Jimmy's nickname in the train enthusiast community?]?), this is one of those themes that seems like it could be done many times over, with different themers each time. Where's my [Scot's refusal to do a hip-hop dance?] or [Hand drum somehow played by male turkey?]? These are ridiculous enough that maybe I've answered my own question, but still, there are probably a bunch more potential answers out there. That doesn't take away from these, which work fine.