CrosswordDictionary2024Dec Flashcards
Chess rating system (3)
ELO
Director Jean-___ Godard (3)
LUC
Temaki cone (4)
NORI
Mountain cluster (6)
MASSIF
“House of the Dragon” actor D’Arcy (4)
EMMA
Active during the daytime (7)
DIURNAL
___ Suárez, former prime minister who lends his name to Spain’s largest airport (6)
ADOLFO
___ metabolism (5)
BASAL
Godzilla’s studio (4)
TOHO
Norman Vincent ___, “The Power of Positive Thinking” author (5)
PEALE
Cloudy, as liquid (6)
TURBID
Youngest March sister (3)
AMY
Grand ___ (wine designation) (3)
CRU
Role for Anne in “The Dark Knight Rises” or Julia in “Veep” (6)
SELINA
“Ready Player One” star Sheridan (3)
TYE
Head-to-toe Islamic garment (5)
BURQA
Nonprofit org. with a Directors Series (3)
AFI
Swimming (6)
NATANT
“Bicycle Thieves” director Vittorio De ___ (4)
SICA
Venetian magistrate of old (4)
DOGE
Is visibly fearful (6)
QUAILS
English ___ spaniel (dog breed) (8)
SPRINGER
Motor in a robot, often (5)
SERVO
Henry who composed the theme for “The Pink Panther” (7)
MANCINI
World Heritage site in Jordan (5)
PETRA
Sally Bowles’s flatmate in Chelsea, per a “Cabaret” number (5)
ELSIE
Greatcoat fabric (5)
SERGE
Babylonian goddess of love (6)
ISHTAR
Really chaotic situation (9)
GOATRODEO
___ Morales (Spider-Man) (5)
MILES
Swing around (4)
SLUE
Tobiko, at a sushi bar (3)
ROE
Attorney general before Garland (4)
BARR
Title princess in a Gilbert and Sullivan opera (3)
IDA
Actress Creel of “Saved by the Bell” (6)
LEANNA
Keebler’s saltine brand (5)
ZESTA
Treated, as acidic soil in a lawn (5)
LIMED
Adler in a Sherlock Holmes story (5)
IRENE
We, to Louis (4)
NOUS
Heart medicine, for short (5)
NITRO
Some 1960s protests (5)
BEINS
Actor George of “1917” (6)
MACKAY
“People” in Choctaw (4)
OKLA
Be a pest to (6)
HECTOR
Battle of ___ (event in the Mexican-American War) (9)
MONTERREY
First Nations people (6)
OJIBWA
Spanish city with Moorish architecture (7)
CORDOBA
“Eternals” star Gemma (4)
CHAN
Debussy’s “Air de ___” (3)
LIA
Fit for service (4)
ONEA
Loose-fitting Muslim robe (5)
ABAYA
Source of bay leaves (6)
LAUREL
Handle such as Jane Doe (6)
ANONYM
Lollapalooza (4)
LULU
“1984” drudge (5)
PROLE
Label that first signed the Rolling Stones (5)
DECCA
Beauty marks (4)
NEVI
Box in many trucks (7)
CBRADIO
The ___ faith (unitary religion founded in the nineteenth century) (5)
BAHAI
Computer graphics program that handles lighting effects (6)
SHADER
Supermodel Cheryl (5)
TIEGS
German tank of WWII (6)
PANZER
“The Collected Schizophrenias” author ___ Weijun Wang (4)
ESME
Central Asian grassland (6)
STEPPE
Siberian herding dog (7)
SAMOYED
Dien Bien ___, 1954 battle site in Vietnam (3)
PHU
Mollusk with an iridescent inner shell (7)
ABALONE
Role for Jay Silverheels (5)
TONTO
Skye of “Say Anything…” (4)
IONE
Cafeteria worker’s hairnet (5)
SNOOD
Leader of the Pink Ladies in “Grease” (10)
BETTYRIZZO
Blade used in baking (4)
LAME
Hockey great Eric (7)
LINDROS
Small horse- drawn buggy (8)
STANHOPE
“Tell It to MY Heart” singer Taylor (5)
DAYNE
Doja Cat’s given first name, for which her debut album is named (5)
AMALA
2018 Oscar winner for playing Churchill (6)
OLDMAN
Gun, in Roaring Twenties lingo (3)
GAT
“Inspector ___” (long-running British detective drama) (5)
MORSE
Infamous bushranger Kelly (3)
NED
Dove known for poetry (4)
RITA
Hungarian violinist Leopold (4)
AUER
She played a psychiatrist in Hitchcock’s “Spellbound” (13)
INGRIDBERGMAN
Nickname original bestowed on Clara Bow (6)
ITGIRL
___ Antall, first democratically elected prime minister of Hungary, 1990-1993 (6)
JOZSEF
Polynesian drink with psychoactive effects (4)
KAVA
McEvoy of cosmetics (5)
TRISH
Bow in the movies (5)
CLARA
Caesar’s first stabber (5)
CASCA
Actor who plays Lieutenant Sulu in the rebooted “Star Trek” films (7)
JOHNCHO
“The L Word” actress Pam (5)
GREER
Gene who was the first golfer to win all four modern majors (7)
SARAZEN