Puzzle 4: Making the Cut

Hello again, all! A few updates:

• Sorry for the delay in getting a new puzzle up; for a lot of reasons, last week has been kind of A Week. I'm currently looking at a schedule of putting new puzzles up on Sunday evenings, though the exact time will vary, and it may vary whether it's 1 week or 2 weeks (or, possibly but hopefully not, longer than that) between puzzles. 
  
  
• Did you figure out Puzzle 3, including the puzzle's quasi-theme and the entries related to it? If not, fear not -- all is now revealed! Click below:
  Puzzle 3 - Solution
  
  
• Also, did you watch this most recent Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions? An outstanding performance for so many of the contestants. Congratulations to James Holzhauer on taking the win, and shout-out to Emma Boettcher for fighting it out to the very last clue on her way to a 2nd place finish.

And now for what you're actually all here for: Puzzle 4, "Making the Cut," is now available! As of now (edit: at the time of original posting), this puzzle DOES NOT have a solve-in-browser applet. I can't really talk about why, so I'll just say I am looking into fixing this in the coming weeks, and you can expect it back for future puzzles. (Edit: Now fixed!) For the time being:
Download as .pdf
Download as .puz (for solving in Across Lite)

​Happy solving!

UPDATE: this puzzle now DOES have a solve-in-browser applet. Thanks to Sudheendra Hangal of AmuseLabs for working through the tech issue with me. Enjoy!