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
Engraver of “Beer Street” and “Gin Lane” (7)
GOGARTH
Flow: prefix (4)
RHEO
Small moon, in British English (5)
LUNET
Hold of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork (6)
USENET
Da Mayor portrayed Davis in “Do the Right Thing” (5)
OSSIE
Actor Don of “Trading Places” (6)
AMECHE
___ de mer (3)
MAL
Gloppy fare (5)
SWILL
Ibsen’s “___ Gabler” (5)
HEDDA
Profound shift: 2 wds (9)
SEACHANGE
9 to 5 actor Coleman (6)
DABNEY
Japanese conceptual artist Yayoi (6)
KUSAMA
Bon Jovi guitarist Sambora (6)
RICHIE
Reframing of past events to fix a plot hole (6)
RETCON
Bestselling Neil Gaiman graphic novel whose title character is also known as Dream or Morpheus, among other names: 2 wds (7)
SANDMAN
Parsonages (6)
MANSES
Cowers in fear (6)
QUAILS
Magnetized neutron star that emits very regular periodic bursts of radiation (6)
PULSAR
Surname of the family in Long Day’s Journey into Night (6)
TYRONE
Titular Marvel villain voiced by James Spader (6)
ULTRON
Cartoonish known for a character with a 33-Across (6)
SCHULZ
Knicks legend “___ the Pearl” Monroe (4)
EARL
Camaro named for a race acronym (4)
IROC
TV monitors, in brief (3)
FCC
Smith of “Doctor Who” (4)
MATT
“A Black Lady Sketch Show” creator Robin (5)
THEDE
One of Lear’s daughters (5)
REGAN
Artwork carved on bones (9)
SCRIMSHAW
Post-coup group (5)
JUNTA
Pan’s domain, in Greek myth (7)
ARCADIA
Designer Saab (4)
ELIE
Bottomless pit (5)
ABYSM
Currency of Laos (3)
KIP
“Doesn’t matter to me” (6)
NOLOSS
Jazz singer Carmen (5)
MCRAE
Detroit ___, nickname for Malcolm X (3)
RED
Spider-Man adversary played by Jamie Foxx (7)
ELECTRO
Journalist Tarbell (3)
IDA
Entrepreneur ___ C.J. Walker (5)
MADAM
Small surgical knife (6)
LANCET
Bunch of hair (4)
HANK
___ the Lucky, nickname of a noted explorer (4)
LEIF
Singer Ocasek (3)
RIC
Sports analyst Kimes (4)
MINA
Some chess tactics (4)
PINS
“___ vous” (polite French phrase) (5)
APRES
Pistol used by James Bond (10)
WALTHERPPK
Excited outburst (5)
SQUEE
Unfair, to Brits (10)
NOTCRICKET
Trackgoer’s aids (10)
DOPESHEETS
NASA rocket name since 1957 (5)
ATLAS
Hybrid shape with straight edges and rounded corners (8)
SQUIRCLE
___-Cover (Paris basilica) (5)
SACRE
Cartoondom’s “Princess of Power” (5)
SHERA
Bumpkin (5)
YOKEL
Locale for one leg of the Triple Crown of Motorsport (6)
LEMANS
___ Smith, drummer for Alice Cooper (4)
NEAL
New wave’s Adam ___ (3)
ANT
Robert Matthew Van ___, real name of rap’s Vanilla Ice (6)
WINKLE
Sweetened cornmeal in Mexican cuisine (6)
PINOLE
Hats worn by Napoleon (8)
BICORNES
Marsalis family patriarch (5)
ELLIS
Mark who played Luke Skywalker (6)
HAMILL
Suspicious, informally (5)
HINKY
Doing mess hall duties, for short (4)
ONKP
One of a trio of famous Catherines (4)
PARR
Some Olds of old (6)
CIERAS
Eldest of the Three Musketeers (5)
ATHOS
Comic pianist known as “The Clown Prince of Denmark” (5)
BORGE
Org. that funds PBS (3)
NEA
Former queen of Jordan (4)
NOOR
Pollutants banned in the ‘70s, inbrief (4)
PCBS
Romanian currency (3)
LEU
Susan of “L.A. Law” (3)
DEY
Talk idly (6)
NATTER
Tracy, to his Hollywood friends (6)
SPENCE
Hardwood stick used for percussion (5)
CLAVE
“Mountains and Sea” painter Frankenthaler (5)
HELEN
Hindu thunder deity (5)
INDRA
“Jeanus” rapper Jean ___ (4)
GRAE
Developer of the oral polio vaccine (5)
SABIN
Indigenous people of Eastern Canada (4)
INNU
Wishful longing, in Portuguese culture (7)
SAUDADE
Cozens (6)
TRICKS
Bambi author Felix (6)
SALTEN
Historical Muslim leader (6)
CALIPH
Notre Dame coaching great Knute (6)
ROCKNE
Queen of detective fiction (6)
ELLERY
Heavy silk fabric (6)
SAMITE
Trees or shrubs in the cashew family (6)
SUMACS