Codenames 43

[sunrise089]

Looking at spoilers, I didn't see Butcher's Bill at all. I've heard the expression but I don't have that strong of an association. Nevertheless you're both really strong on it so I'll point.

One other thought which just came to me is that Butcher is the co-protagonist of the dark superhero series The Boys. But I don't see any strong connection aside from Screen which can relate to any media property.

Point to Bill
Point to Ham

Commodore, how do you feel about Hook which both pindicator and I have as strongly connected?

pindicator, it's the Barber of Seville isn't it?

[Charriu]

OPERA	CARROT	FALL	BEIJING	AMERICA
MUG	BILL	JAM	CHOCOLATE	SCIENTIST
BOLT	SCREEN	ANGEL	HOOK	TRIP
HELICOPTER	COOK	HAM	BERRY	SCUBA DIVER
LOCK	TEMPLE	BAND	TAP	OCTOPUS

Bill is red
Ham is red

[Commodore]

I'm willing to point at Hook

[Charriu]

OPERA	CARROT	FALL	BEIJING	AMERICA
MUG	BILL	JAM	CHOCOLATE	SCIENTIST
BOLT	SCREEN	ANGEL	HOOK	TRIP
HELICOPTER	COOK	HAM	BERRY	SCUBA DIVER
LOCK	TEMPLE	BAND	TAP	OCTOPUS

Hook is red

[pindicator]

Pass

Nice start team

[Azoth]

International 3

[T-hawk]

BEIJING is obvious. TRIP seems probable.

AMERICA is the tough call - is this included as a representative of a nationality, or excluded by the "inter"national clue?

I think I would lean towards guessing America (and hope it's no-worse-than-gray), just because there doesn't seem to be much of anything else on the board that connects. SCIENTISTs are often international, BANDs can be, maybe Swiss CHOCOLATE, German or Italian OPERA, a military HELICOPTER or SCUBA mission... but all of those are pretty tenuous links.

[T-hawk]

We should make auto-pass the default if the team doesn't have previous clues to catch up with.

I played once when my teammate won for us by guessing a word that was never clued. We covered all our clued words and had 1 to go, but so did the other team. Teammate looked for the hardest word on the board to wrap into any of the other clues (it was Kiwi), guessed it with our +1, and astounded the entire table when he was correct.

[sunrise089]

We should make auto-pass the default if the team doesn't have previous clues to catch up with.

I’m sure eventually a team may have some reason for doing otherwise, but I like this mainly as I suck about remembering to pass

[JR4]

The first word that jumped out on me is TRIP for international travel.  
BEIJING as an international city?
Perhaps AMERICA should be seen as national rather than international?'
There are a number of other options. A BAND can have international members. 
TV-programs are shown on SCREENS and could be seen as international.

This is tricky. I`d go TRIP - BEIJING and then reassess.