CrosswordDictionary2024July Flashcards
Greek counterpart of Aurora (3)
EOS
Series of film shorts that featured “The Little Rascals” (7)
OURGANG
Soprano Netrebko (4)
ANNA
___-Coeur (5)
SACRE
Capital on the Gulf of Guinea (4)
LOME
Fictional sleuth McGee (6)
TRAVIS
TV horse (4)
MRED
Robotic motors (6)
SERVOS
Actress Alice of “City of God” (or also, I suppose, her aunt Sonia) (5)
BRAGA
Model Mena (5)
ERICA
Top-level domain since 2001 (3)
BIZ
Smelt fish whose roe is sometimes called masago (7)
CAPELIN
Actress/YouTuber Milan (4)
LALA
One of the Three Musketeers (5)
ATHOS
What James Brown “paid the cost to be,” in a 1973 song (7)
THEBOSS
Certain NCO (4)
MSGT
“Yankee Doodle Dandy” Oscar winner James (6)
CAGNEY
Pitcher Jim who wrote the 1970 memoir “Ball Four” (6)
BOUTON
Poet James Russell ___ (6)
LOWELL
Pioneering chemist Lavoisier (7)
ANTOINE
Emanuel’s predecessor in Chicago (5)
DALEY
Weak-willed and irresponsible (8)
FECKLESS
“QB VII” author Leon (4)
URIS
Blame It ___ (1984 Michael Caine film) (5)
ONRIO
Fishbone frontman Moore (6)
ANGELO
Major metals manufacturer (5)
ALCOA
Harold who composed “Over the Rainbow” (5)
ARLEN
New York Rangers great Brian (6)
LEETCH
Maeby Funke portrayer on “Arrested Development” (12)
ELIASSHAWKAT
French 10 (3)
DIX
TV producer David E. ___ (6)
KELLEY
Spartan queen of myth (4)
LEDA
Third oldest of the March sisters (4)
BETH
Model Rau who became the first openly trans Playboy Playmate in 2017 (4)
INES
“The Perfect Nanny” novelist Slimani (5)
LEILA
“Calvin and Hobbes” girl (5)
SUSIE
“Inventing ___” (2022 miniseries about a real-life con artist) (4)
ANNA
___ Martin cognac (4)
REMY
Class of difficult problems, in computation complexity theory (6)
NPHARD
Hit the bottle, old-style (4)
TOPE
“Agent ___” (short-lived Marvel series) (6)
CARTER
1994 Denis Leary black comedy (6)
THEREF
Black Arts Movement poet Jones (5)
LEROI
Aunt played by Marisa Tomei (3)
MAY
Worked steadily at (5)
PLIED
Burst with emotion (5)
PLOTZ
Whitlock Jr. of “The Wire” and “Veep” (5)
ISIAH
Arizona county known for its saguaros (4)
PIMA
Ancient Egyptian architect who was later deified (7)
IMHOTEP
This, in French (3)
CET
Composer Rorem (3)
NED
Jack of “Twin Peaks” (5)
NANCE
Colombian cyclist and Tour de France winner Bernal (4)
EGAN
Nobel winner Hammarskjöld (3)
DAG
TV network and production house for arthouse flicks (3)
IFC
Mid-Atlantic grocery chain ___ Markets (4)
WEIS
Fried lentil snack resembling a donut (4)
VADA
“Rhinestone Cowboy” singer Campbell (4)
GLEN
Traditional Inuit knife (3)
ULU
Kapoor of “Slumdog Millionaire” (4)
ANIL
Make a foolish mistake (4)
DERP
Defensive boxing strategy (9)
ROPEADOPE
Home run, slangily (5)
TATER
Manhattan Theater District eatery with caricature-lined walls (6)
SARDIS
Seasonal stream, perhaps (4)
RILL
Reddit’s alien mascot (4)
SNOO
Classic Chrysler (4)
KCAR
Poivre partner (3)
SEL
Old Irish daggers (6)
SKEANS
Ratatouille director Bird (4)
BRAD
Fat-burning metabolic state (7)
KETOSIS
Skype tech (4)
VOIP
He played Ed Norton on The Honeymooners (9)
ARTCARNEY
East African language spoken by Lupita Nyong’o (3)
LUO
Muppeteer Jerry (6)
NELSON
Easton with the #1 hit “Morning Train (9 to 5)” (6)
SHEENA
Three sheets to the wind (6)
SOUSED
Twisted Sister’s genre (9)
HAIRMETAL
Patterned East African dress, or a Milne character (5)
KANGA
“A Letter to ___” (documentary co-directed by Scorcese (4)
ELIA
The Wiz actress Horne (4)
LENA
Wake-up calls (9)
REVEILLES
___ Douglas-Home, former British P.M. (4)
ALEC
Jean who wrote “The Thief’s Journal” (5)
GENET
Famed sportscaster Howard (6)
COSELL
“___ Breckinridge” (1968 Gore Vidal novel) (4)
MYRA
City that’s home to the Green Dome (6)
MEDINA
Film studio with a Pegasus logo (7)
TRISTAR
Chevron alternative (4)
ARCO
Summary (6)
PRECIS
Young Sheldon actor Armitage (4)
IAIN
Hikaru Nakamura or Yoko Ono, e.g. (5)
ISSEI
Marxist Luxemburg (4)
ROSA
Lathe, drill press, or gear shaper (11)
MACHINETOOL
Wild West sheriff’s badge (7)
TINSTAR
Nasal partitions (5)
SEPTA
Mezzo-soprano Anne ___ von Otter (5)
SOFIE
Icelandic epic with prose and poetic sections (4)
EDDA
Guitar manufacturer whose name is the Spanish equivalent of “Johnson” (6)
IBANEZ
Local dialect (6)
PATOIS
Cried like a crow (5)
CAWED
Getting on board? (6)
LADING
“Meeting in the Ladies Room” sextet (1985) (7)
KLYMAXX
Brand in the razor aisle (4)
ATRA
Drugstore makeup brand named after the Greek goddess of the night (3)
NYX
Harmful algal blooms (8)
REDTIDES
“Razor-billed” bird (3)
AUK
Light yellow flowers often found near cattle (6)
OXLIPS
Bud’s partner in classic comedy (3)
LOU
Rhyming synonym for “nonsense” (8)
CLAPTRAP
Broadway songwriter Sammy (4)
CAHN
“Lupin” star Sy (4)
OMAR
Hebrew for “the nations” (5)
GOYIM
March who hosted “The $64,000 Question” (3)
HAL
Haute-___ (department of eastern France) (5)
SAONE
Artist with seventeen #1’s on the top New Age Albums chart (5)
YANNI
Scholar and activist Grace Lee ___ (5)
BOGGS
Exhausting trek (8)
FOOTSLOG
“Broad City” character Wexler (5)
ILANA
Poppycock (6)
PIFFLE
“Lemon Tree” singer Lopez (5)
TRINI
“My Neighbor __”: 1988 Miyazaki film (6)
TOTORO
Painter Velázquez (5)
DIEGO
Duchess of ___ (Goya subject) (4)
ELBA
Cloris ___, Emmy-winning actress on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” (8)
LEACHMAN
Something wanted (11)
DESIDERATUM
Olympian Sebastian (3)
COE
Clea who played Natasha Lyonne’s love interest in 1999’s “But I’m a Cheerleader” (6)
DUVALL
Circular gasket (5)
ORING
Blacksmith who raised Pip in Great Expectations (9)
JOEGARGER
Titular princess of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera (3)
IDA
Like a castrated horse (6)
GELDED
Unoriginal and trite (9)
HACKNEYED
PBS documentary series (3)
POV
___ vincit amor (5)
OMNIA
Scott who wrote the legal thriller “Presumed Innocent” (5)
TUROW
Ramirez of “Madam Secretary” (4)
SARA
Loss of the sense of smell (7)
ANOSMIA
Greek goddess of falling stars (7)
ASTERIA
___ Felton, title detective of “The Puzzle Lady Mysteries” (4)
CORA
Casino card game (8)
BACCARAT
Nothing, in Nantes (4)
RIEN
Queen ___ al-Abdullah of Jordan (5)
RANIA
“A Delicate Balance” playwright (5)
ALBEE
Country duo Maddie & __ (3)
TAE
La Dame de ___ (sobriquet for the Eiffel Tower) (3)
FER
Latin for “actually existing” (6)
INESSE
“Arrested Development” actor whose character claims to have awards “from Army” (8)
TONYHALE
Boyfriend of Nancy Drew (3)
NED
Super-successful, in old slang (5)
SOCKO
The Doctor’s Time Machine (6)
TARDIS
Fancy tchotchke (6)
BAUBLE
Brewers broadcaster Bob (6)
UECKER
Dunaway who incorrectly announced “La La Land” as Best Picture (4)
FAYE
Hindu god of destruction (4)
SIVA
With the bow, musically (4)
ARCO
Indonesian textile process in which the yarn is dyed prior to weaving (4)
IKAT
Rulers used on drafting tables (9)
TSQUARES
Spanish port city with a Guggenheim Museum (6)
BILBAO
“___ Loves Chachi” (6)
JOANIE
Barinholtz who won “Celebrity Jeopardy!” in 2023 (3)
IKE
Chicago Bears great Walter (6)
PAYTON
Old Scottish title (5)
THANE
Crispy Indian snack noodles made from chickpea flour (3)
SEV
Indigenous people of Hokkaido (4)
AINU
“Get Smart” gadget (9)
SHOEPHONE
“___ Curtis Wishlist” (Xiu Xii track) (3)
IAN
Sudden incursion (6)
SORTIE
Enjoyed oneself immensely (7)
HADAGAS
Swindle (4)
BILK
Abstract painter ___ Thomas (4)
ALMA
Gait faster than a trot (6)
CANTER
Landscape architect André who designed the gardens at Versailles (7)
LENOTRE
Sister, in Portuguese (4)
IRMA
Feature of high heels popularized in the 1920s (6)
TSTRAP
Recharge before going out? (8)
DISCONAP
Like some piggy banks (7)
DIECAST
Hilton-owned hotel chain (3)
TRU
Speaks, biblically (5)
SAITH
Fiji’s capital (4)
SUVA
Epithet for the attractive dancer in “Rear Window” (9)
MISSTORSO
Benin, before 1975 (7)
DAHOMEY
___ 5 (1993-98 sci-fi series) (7)
BABYLON
Comedian Martin (3)
MAE
___-culottes (bloc that advocated for economic equality during the French Revolution) (4)
SANS
Chemical compound in plastics and rubber (7)
STYRENE
Artist Margaret portrayed by Amy Adams in “Big Eyes” (9)
KEANE
Troy’s best friend, on Community (4)
ABED
Verdi opera (6)
OTELLO
Animals in a holt (6)
OTTERS
“Crazy Rich Asians” director Jon M. ___ (3)
CHU
Yes-man, of a kind (11)
APPARATCHIK
Abstract painter ___ Woodsey Thomas (4)
ALMA
Snowmobile brand (6)
SKIDOO
Hebrew letter (3)
YOD
Ashby who directed “Shampoo” and “Being There” (3)
HAL
Gillette razor that débuted in 1977 (4)
ATRA
__ Leonowens (“The King and I” protagonist) (4)
ANNA
Lindelof who co-created “Lost” and “The Leftovers” (5)
DAMON
Eastern flycatcher (6)
PHOEBE
Jupiter alias (4)
JOVE
Sportswriter Shelburne (6)
RAMONA
“I Shot Andy Warhol” actress Taylor (4)
LILI
Mark Twain collaborator Bret (5)
HARTE
Supposedly valuable advice (8)
STOCKTIP
Nineteen-forties automaker Preston (6)
TUCKER
One of the Starks (5)
SANSA
City of northern Germany (6)
BREMEN
“S.N.L.” cast member Nwodim (3)
EGO
Dali contemporary (4)
SERT
Repeated musical figure (8)
OSTINATE
“Because of Winn-Dixie” narrator (4)
OPAL
Eagle constellation (6)
AQUILA
“It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” comedian (5)
BERLE
MAS*H corporal played by Jamie Farr (7)
KLINGER
Zest (4)
TANG
French for “eight” (4)
HUIT
Playwright Harold (6)
PINTER
RCA dog (6)
NIPPER
Actress Ullman (3)
LIV
Prickly plant (5)
BRIAR
Port in western France (5)
BREST
Baseball announced Bob who played a baseball announcer in Major League (6)
UECKER
One of Bob Marley’s Wailers (9)
PETERTOSH
Make weary (4)
JADE
Dry watercourse (4)
WADI
Daisy of “The Rise of Skywalker” (6)
RIDLEY
Actress SCALA of 1950s-60s TV and film (3)
GIA
Sheridan of “Mud” and “Ready Player One” (3)
TYE
“What, me worry?” sloganeer (6)
NEUMAN
Hooligans (5)
LOUTS
Fortress in a Clash song (6)
CASBAH
Actor Kingsley (3)
BEN
Comedy writer Amram (5)
MEGAN
Novelist Mario Vargas ___ (5)
LLOSA
Longtime ABC executive Arledge (5)
ROONE
Label that dropped the Sex Pistols after three months (4)
KELLOGG
Purely computational, as a scientific experiment (6)
INSILICO
Actress Besch or Anderson (4)
BIBI
___ Beach (California resort) (5)
PISMO
__ the lily (3)
GILD
Prearranged sport for the transfer of clandestine material (8)
DEADDROP
Prosperity gospel promoter Joel (6)
OSTEEN
Ron of “Tarzan” (3)
ELY
___ Highway (scenic road along Maui’s north shore) (4)
HANA
Colorant of tomatoes and watermelons (8)
LYCOPENE
Type of boat that once carried orders (thus its Spanish name) (5)
AVISO
Actress Dennings (3)
KAT
One of the Pequod’s owners, in “Moby-Dick” (5)
PELEG
Legendary Japanese outlaw Ishikawa ___ (6)
GOEMON
“Five Feet of Fury” pro wrestler Bliss (5)
ALEXA
Mushroom stalk (5)
STIPE
Title conferring elevated status on churches of England (7)
MINSTER
Kitchenware brand (4)
EKCO
Dadaist Max who invented frontage (5)
ERNST
Legal scholar Guinier who wrote “Lift Every Voice” (4)
LANI
Glossy black cuckoo (3)
ANI
James of “Gunsmoke” (6)
ARNESS
Team in a classic “S.N.L.” sketch (7)
DABEARS
Baby’s woe (5)
COLIC
Thora’s role in “Ghost World” (4)
ENID
Tedious literary passages (9)
LONGUEURS
Dark and gloomy (7)
STYGIAN
Warded (off) (6)
STAVED
Glazer who plays Ms. Noodle on “Sesame Street” (5)
ILANA
Eldest Huxtable daughter (6)
SANDRO
“for colored girls …” playwright Shange (7)
NTOZAKE
Nonsense (8)
CLAPTRAP
Res ___ (trustworthy secondhand testimony) (6)
GESTAE
Twittering Machine painter (8)
PAULKAYE
Subatomic particle named for a Greek letter (4)
PION
Matthew of “Full Metal Jacket” and “Stranger Things” (6)
MODINE
___ City (Baghdad district) (4)
SADR
Poet Olds (6)
SHARON
“Moral Man and Immoral Society” author whom Barack Obama cited as one of his favorite philosophers (7)
NIEBUHR
Keyboard instrument named for a Muse (8)
CALLIOPE
“The Marvels” director DaCosta (3)
NIA
“The Tragedy of Macbeth” director Joel (4)
COEN
Tour that featured bands such as Black Sabbath and Disturbed (7)
OZZFEST
Seth Macfarlane series inspired by “Star Trek,” with “The” (7)
ORVILLE
Capital of Comoros (6)
MORONI
Little girl in “The Nutcracker” (5)
CLARA
Ingredient in a Bloody Caesar cocktail (7)
CLAMATO
Sea bordered by Ukraine and Russia (4)
AZOV
Reggae and dub artist Lee “Scratch” ___ (5)
PERRY
___ Dundee, trainer for Muhammad Ali and George Foreman (6)
ANGELO
Indigenous Mexican people (5)
OTOMI
City retaken in the Battle of Normandy (4)
CAEN
Philosopher said to have predicted a total solar eclipse in 585 BCE (6)
THALES
“Law & Order: SVU” actress Giddish (5)
KELLI
Homemade hooch (10)
SNEAKYPETE
Japanese syndicate (6)
YAKUZA
Currency of Saudi Arabia (5)
RIYAL
Company name associated with absinthe since La Belle Epoque (6)
PERNOD
Soon, quaintly (4)
ANON
Hard-shelled gourds (10)
CALABASHES
Tardigrade, by another name (9)
WATERBEAR
Unattractive (6)
HOMELY
It creates table salt when combined with baking soda (Abbr.) (3)
HCL
House of ___, ruling family of the Mideast (4)
SAUD
Wolfe of fiction (4)
NERO
Comedian Barinholtz of “The Mindy Project” (3)
IEK
André who wrote the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto (6)
BRETON
“Chances Are” singer Johnny (6)
MATHIS
Forensic anthropologist/writer Reichs who inspired the TV series “Bones” (5)
KATHY
Catherine who played Nellie Bertram on “The Office” (4)
TATE
Sam of “Jurassic Park” (5)
NEILL
1990s sitcom named for its female lead character (4)
THEA
“The Railway Children” author E. ___ (6)
NESBIT
Imbroglio (9)
MARESNEST
Gaping grin on a ghoulish mask (6)
RICTUS
Another name for the cane toad (4)
BUFO
French red wine (5)
MEDOC
Sicilian tourist town in Season 2 of “The White Lotus” (8)
TAORMINA
Nobel laureate Pavlov (4)
IVAN
John of The Blues Brothers (7)
BELUSHI
Erich who wrote “Love Story” (5)
SEGAL
“suddenly we” poet Shockley (4)
EVIE
West African empire until 1901 (7)
ASHANTI
Scientist Robert known as “England’s Leonardo” (5)
HOOKE
Jazz guitarist Montgomery (3)
WES
Southwest Colombian city (4)
CALI
Cathedral city near Cambridge (3)
ELY
Bob of the ’72 Dolphins (6)
GRIESE
___-Locka, Florida (Miami suburb) (3)
OPA
Wooden shoe (5)
SABOT
Target for a peg in a round hole? (5)
PSPOT
Law-enforcement riders parodied by Dudley Do-Right: Abbr (4)
RCMP
Intense aversions (6)
ODIUMS
Seal swarms (4)
BOBS
Tabloid TV show infamous for an on-set brawl in 1988 (7)
GERALDO
Actor Vigoda (3)
ABE
August: Osage County playwright Tracy (5)
LETTS
The Tempest sorcerer (8)
PROSPERO
Essential amino acid abbreviated V (6)
VALINE
At full speed, old style (5)
AMAIN
“The Simpsons” newscaster Brockton (4)
KENT
Warble, as a sound (6)
QUAVER
Zen paradox (4)
KOAN
Outhouse (5)
PRIVY
Architecture critic ___ Louise Huxtable (3)
ADA
One of the purple-haired Mackleberry tins on “The Simpsons” (5)
TERRI
Highest peak on Crete: Abbr. (5)
MTIDA
Noble ladies (9)
PEERESSES
Serbian coins (6)
DINARS
Abba of Israel (4)
EBAN
Flop (5)
PLOTZ
Musical style for Selena (6)
TEJANO
Skunk, colloquially (7)
POLECAT
Stage name of actor Raiford Chatman Davis (5)
OSSIE
Food item, quaintly (5)
VIAND
Activist Hampton of the Black Panthers (4)
FRED
“Liar Liar” actress Cheri (5)
OTERI
Beloved of Heathcliff (5)
CATHY
“Lotus Flower Bomb” rapper (4)
WALE
“___ Homo” (Nietzsche’s final book) (4)
ECCE
Koothrappali on “The Big Bang Theory” (3)
RAJ
1973 Pacino title role (7)
SERPICO
Bellini opera (5)
NORMA
___ Rose a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty (5)
BRIAR
French war minister with a namesake line of defense (7)
MAGINOT
Lisbeth Salander’s portrayer in the Swedish adaptation of the “Millennium” trilogy (11)
NOOMIRAPACE
Thataway (3)
YON
Record producer Blanco or ABBA member Andersson (5)
BENNY
Sink of “Stranger Things” (5)
SADIE
“The Marvels” director DaCosta (3)
NIA
Hoosegow (7)
SLAMMER
New Orleans songwriter Allen (9)
TOUSSAINT
Wisconsin city on the Illinois border (6)
BELOIT
Long time Soul Train host Don (9)
CORNELIUS
Become too much a creature of habit, say (6)
OSSIFY
Calm stretch (3)
PAX
Younger of the Hardy Boys (3)
JOE
Club that closed in 2006 with a performance of Patti Smith’s “Elegie” (4)
CBGB
Maximilian who is the patron saint of political prisoners (5)
KOLBE
Dora the Explorer’s iguana friend (3)
ISA
Film producer Daniels (3)
LEE
Frederick who composed “Camelot” (5)
LOEWE
“Bride and Prejudice” actress Aishwarya (3)
RAI
“Cum On Feel the Noize” band, 1973 (5)
SLADE
Site of an ancient Oracle (6)
DELPHI
Descend on (6)
ASSAIL
___ of Baelor (place of worship in “Game of Thrones”) (4)
SEPT
___ Be Stupid (Yankovic album) (6)
DARETO
“Serpico” writer Peter (4)
MAAS
“Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” genre (6)
TEJANO
Sauce served with biryani (5)
RAITA
Fix crudely yet effectively (Hyph.) (7)
JURYRIG
Greek goddess of motherhood (4)
LETO
Castrated male chicken (5)
CAPON
Soul group with the 1976 hit “Car Wash” (9)
ROSEROYCE
Prayer performed five times daily (5)
SALAT
Polish humanitarian Sendler (5)
IRENA
Canadian brewing company (6)
LABATT
Set down unceremoniously (5)
PLONK
Magazine notably linked to the civil rights movement (3)
JET
“Ratatouille” rat (5)
EMILE
Japanese masked drama (3)
NOH
French car make with a lion logo (7)
PEUGEOT
Filmmaker whose “Fresh Guacamole” is the shortest-ever Oscar-nominated film (3)
PES
Slaughter seen at Fenway in the 1950s (4)
ENOS
Myles on the Mayflower (4)
STANDISH
Cartoonist Chast (3)
ROZ
Mosaic tile (7)
TESSERA
French literary character who played a role in the climax of “Slumdog Millionaire” (6)
ARAMIS
Palindromic constellation in the southern sky (3)
ARA
In bad faith, legally (8)
MALAFIDE
Holy oil (such as myrrh) (6)
CHRISM
Nobel-winning, gene-editing biochemist Jennifer (4)
DUODNA
“Rugrats” grandpa (3)
LOU
Lt. Dan Band lead singer Gary (6)
SINISE
Farm machine separating the wheat from the chaff (8)
THRESHER
Porthos, to D’Artagnan (3)
AMI
Fourth-highest mountain on Earth (4)
LHOTSE
Kind of class that might get a nickname like Rocks for Jocks or Stars for Stoners (3)
GUT
Savory jelly (5)
ASPIC
Kellogg’s saltine brand (5)
ZESTA
Composer John of Cabaret and Chicago (6)
KANDER
Energy drink with GT Grape and Sonic Sour flavors (3)
NOS
Half of a “Do You Love Me?” duo (5)
GOLDE
Layer of coal (4)
SEAM
Engine type (7)
TWINCAM
Japanese energy healing practice (5)
REIKI
Ancient city near Jerusalem (6)
BETHEL
___ Achse (German board game whose name translates to “On The Road”) (3)
AUF
Trans activist Erlick (3)
ELI
Lauren Miracle book series told in IM conversations (4)
TTEL
Former athlete and MP Sebastian (3)
COE
“Pygmalion” playwright, for short (6)
GBSHAW
Cabot ___ (“Murder, She Wrote” setting) (4)
COVE
___ Salamanca (“Better Call Saul” enforcer) (4)
LOLO
Chef Jiro of “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” (3)
ONO
“Swimfan” star Christensen (5)
ERIKA
Indigenous peoples of current-day Oaxaca (7)
MIXTECS
Contemporary of Agatha and Dashiell (4)
ERLE
Attorney/activity Gloria (6)
ALLRED
Paul of “There Will Be Blood” (4)
DANO
Hestia’s domain (5)
HERBS
Composer Schifrin (4)
LALO
Predominantly Black Protestant church, for short (3)
AME
Fashion designer Wang (3)
UMA
Nickname for the Bell UH-1 helicopter (4)
HUEY
Mortar-spreading tool (6)
TROWEL
James ___ (vintage British teapot maker) (6)
SADLER
First name on “The X-Files” (3)
FOX
___ Day and the Knights, band that performs “Shout” in “Animal House” (4)
OTIS
Poet Amiri who founded the Black Arts Movement (6)
BARAKA
“The Handmaid’s Tale” actress Strahovski (6)
YVONNE
Protector of sailors, by tradition (4)
ELMO
“The Lady of ___” (Tennyson poem in which “the mirror crack’d from side to side”) (7)
SHALOTT
Cholesterol-lowering drug (6)
STATIN
Real ___ (genuine article) (5)
MCCOY
“Turning Red” director Donee (3)
SHI
The ___ Pound (hip-hop duo) (4)
DOGG
“Star Trek: The Next Generation” counselor Troi (6)
DEANNA
Green parts of garlic plants (6)
SCAPES
Allan who founded the first private detective agency in the U.S. (9)
PINKERTON
Addams Family uncle (6)
FESTER
Gilbert of “the Big Bang Theory” (4)
SARA
The Maltese Falcon star (6)
BOGART
Zen enlightenment (6)
SATORI
___ Restoration (political revolution that modernized Japan) (5)
MEIJI
1950s forerunner of IMAX (8)
CINERAMA
Hindu honorific (5)
SWAMI
Someone coping with baggage (6)
SKYCAP
Miller who leads the Old 97’s (5)
RHETT
Lerner’s collaborator in musicals (5)
LOEWE
Biblical land south of the Dead Sea (4)
EDOM
Gospel singer Tribbett (3)
TYE
Website marketing tool, briefly (3)
SEO
Peer on stage (4)
GYNT
Room, in Reims (5)
SALLE
“The Idol” actress Lily-Rose (4)
DEPP
Saint Petersburg, once (9)
PETROGRAD
Italian song on which Elvis’s “It’s Now or Never” was based (8)
OSOLEMIO
Julia Sweeney movie based on her signature “SNL” sketch (6)
ITSPAT
Songwriter Novello (4)
IVOR
Pulitzer-winning historian Gordon-Reed (7)
ANNETTE
Rod of cheesy poetry and songs (6)
MCKUEN
___ Way (road that leads to Rome) (6)
APPIAN
1998 Angelia Jolie biopic (3)
GIA
McKenzie whose “Lord of the Rings” character is nicknamed Fight (4)
BRET
“Walk Through Fire” singer who played Sister Rosetta Tharpe in “Elvis” (4)
YOLA
Seehorn who played Kim Wexler on “Better Caul Saul” (4)
RHEA
Hardcore heel of pro wrestling, with dastardly alter egos like Cactus Jack and Mankind (9)
MICKFOLEY
“___ aussi” (French words of agreement) (3)
MOI
“NCIS” protagonist __ Jethro Gibbs (5)
LEROY
Chi-Town exchange (4)
MERC
What an unsoothable newborn may have (5)
COLIC
Largest known dwarf planet after Pluto (4)
ERIC
English playwright Coward (4)
NOEL
Did an unintentional “doughnut” (5)
SLUED
Scully’s X-Files partner (6)
MULDER
Isaac Newton va ___, namesake of an L.A. neighborhood (4)
NUYS
Gift set for a newborn (7)
LAYETTE
“Cagney & ___” (5)
LACEY
Langston Hughes’ “___ Unashamed” (4)
CORA
Part of BPOE (4)
ELKS
___ Cobb (long-suffering “Mr. Bean” character) (4)
IRMA
Hawaii Senator Hirono (5)
MAZIE