CrosswordDictionary2024Apr Flashcards
First-and-second bet (6)
EXACTA
Martini & ___ (beverage brand) (5)
ROSSI
Mythical bird (3)
ROC
Mozart’s “Cosi Fan ___” (5)
TUTTE
Senator Joni of Iowa (5)
ERNST
Some U.K. Lords (3)
MPS
City in San Bernardino County (9)
LOMALINDA
Smith who wrote “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” (5)
BETTY
Phillip II of ___, father of Alexander the Great (7)
MACEDON
Actress Rowlands (4)
GENA
Cape Colony settlers (5)
BOERS
Pro wrestler ___ Luger (3)
LEX
Food products wholesaler (5)
SYSCO
Mother of Balder (5)
FRIGG
Anthropomorphic blue vacuum cleaner of “Teletubbies” (6)
NOONOO
“Kossuth” composer Bartok (4)
BELA
Papal emissary (6)
NUNCIO
Grammy winning “Java” trumpeter Al (4)
HIRT
“Passing” actress Ruth (5)
NEGGA
New Guinea port (3)
LAE
1920 play by Karel Capek (3)
RUR
“Othello” character who laments “Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation!” (6)
CASSIO
Dances for which girls do the asking, informally (6)
SADIES
Bound for the big stage? (4)
JETE
Gardner of “Saturday Night Live” (5)
HEIDI
Swedish city where Scandinavia’s first university was founded (1425) (4)
LUND
TV journalist ___ Tur (4)
KATY
Dystopian sci-fi film of 1997 (7)
GATTACA
Sister of Sol, in myth (4)
LUNA
1999 comedy in which Alanis Morissette plays god (5)
DOGMA
AMC car known as “The Flying Fishbowl” (5)
PACER
Goldin of “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” (3)
NAN
Long-horned grasshopper (7)
KATYDID
Daisy known as the “Rosa Parks of the North” (5)
MYERS
Food with a national holiday in El Salvador (7)
PUPUSAS
Reflective effect in some gemstones (7)
CATSEYE
French press? (7)
LEMONDE
“___ volat proprils” (Oregon’s motto) (4)
ALIS
Toby ___, “Twelfth Night” character who says “Thou’rt a scholar; let us therefore eat and drink” (5)
BELCH
Mythical figure who sacrificed an eye in order to drink from the well of knowledge (4)
ODIN
Creatures inspired by George Lucas’s dog (8)
WOOKIEES
Conductor Seiji (5)
OZAWA
Pulitzer-winning playwright Suzan-___ Parks (4)
LORI
Singer Rawls with the hit “You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine” (3)
LOU
German tech and manufacturing conglomerate (7)
SIEMENS
Champion boxer Errol ___ Jr. (6)
SPENCE
Shakespearean misanthrope (5)
TIMON
Small Southwestern birds of prey (7)
ELFOWLS
Role for Michelle Williams in “The Fabelmans” (5)
MITZI
Mythical Buddhist text (6)
TANTRA
Speculative fiction subgenre that envisions a sustainable energy future (9)
SOLARPUNK
Sophisticated (6)
URBANE
1916 battle site, with “the” (5)
SOMME
“Here’s looking at you, kid”? (3)
MAA
“Need You Tonight” band, 1987 (4)
INXS
Lena of “Chocolat” (4)
OLIN
Cariou who played Sweeney Todd (3)
LEN
Botches badly (8)
LOUSESUP
Hydroxyacetone, familiarly (6)
ACETOL