CrosswordDictionary2024Nov Flashcards
Small spade (6)
TROWEL
Pulpy remains after pressing fruit (6)
POMACE
Very loud horn (6)
KLAXON
Intel on a political rival (4)
OPPO
Dress part (6)
BODICE
Fast-fashion giant based in Singapore (5)
SHEIN
Talib who rapped “My name is in the middle of equality” (5)
KWELI
Pink Floyd co-founder Barrett (3)
SYD
Mythical river of forgetfulness (5)
LETHE
Actress Krishnan of South Indian cinema (6)
TRISHA
___ Technica (website with gadget reviews) (3)
ARS
Director Wenders (3)
WIM
Early electric lights (8)
ARCLAMPS
___ May Gaskin, author of “Spiritual Midwifery” (3)
INA
Noted name in lithographs (4)
IVES
English folk singer Billy (5)
BRAGG
Record company behind (and inside) Pink Floyd’s “See Emily Play” (3)
EMI
Cleans up like the Pied Piper (6)
DERATS
P, B, D, T, K and G (8)
PLOSIVES
Home to England’s Jurassic Coast (6)
DORSET
“Milk” director Van Sant (3)
GUS
Alt. (3)
HGT
Journalist Koppel (3)
TED
British punk rocker with the hit “Rebel Yell” (9)
BILLYIDOL
___ contendere (4)
NOLO
Oscar nominee for “Network” (9)
NEDBEATTY
Ludwig Mies van der ___ (noted midcentury architect) (4)
ROHE
Discarded metallic waste (5)
DROSS
“Province” equivalent in Bulgaria or Ukraine (6)
OBLAST
Model who has appeared on hundreds of book covers (5)
FABIO
Thrower of the Apple of Discord (4)
ERIS
Lee in the World Golf Hall of Fame (7)
TREVINO
___ sushi (stuffed deep-fried-tofu pockets) (5)
INARI
Knave, to Shakespeare (6)
VARLET
“The Story of ___” (Truffaut film about a daughter of Victor Hugo) (6)
ADELEH
Roman emperor who ruled for three months (4)
OTHO
Anatomical cavities (5)
ANTRA
D Day carriers, for short (4)
LSTS
Bird with a distinctive call (10)
MEADOWLARK
Analgesic once advertised as offering “Fast, fast, fast relief” (6)
ANACIN
Late Baroque style of decoration (6)
ROCOCO
Oil-and-gas company that merged with Phillips (6)
CONOCO
___ France, winer of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature (7)
ANATOLE
Artist Botticelli (6)
SANDRO
Supreme Court writ, informally (4)
CERT
Leave suddenly (6)
DECAMP
Playwright Eugene (7)
IONESCO
French philosopher Denis (7)
DIDEROT
Port on the English Channel (7)
LEHAVRE
Hunter (6)
NIMROD
Waste time (6)
DIDDLE
Artillery blast (5)
SALVO
Gave birth to a litter (7)
WHELPED
Onetime car-stereo feature (8)
TAPEDECK
Specialized vocabularies (6)
ARGOTS
Conditionally held (8)
INESCROW
Method of painting using opaque pigments (7)
GOUACHE
Nickname for The New York Times, with “the” (8)
GRAYLAND
Schlockmeister subject of a 1994 biopic (6)
EDWOOD
Howard known as WKRP’s Johnny Fever (8)
HESSEMAN
Peter of “Casablanca” (5)
LORRE
Literally, “sparkling,” sweet Italian wine (8)
SPUMANTE
Cousin of a myna bird (8)
STARLING
Game in which jokers are wild cards (7)
CANASTA
Naval missile named for a hand-held weapon (8)
TOMAHAWK
Drummer who wields soft-headed mallets (9)
TIMPANIST
A 1913 ad campaign for them featured the headline “Hello Boys! Make Lots of Toys!” (11)
ERECTORSETS
Spanish city visited in “The Sun Also Rises” (8)
PAMPLONA
Levitating island in “Gulliver’s Travels” (6)
LAPUTA
Global mining company that purchased Alcan in 2007 (8)
RIOTINTO
“Dixie Moon” composer Blake (5)
EUBIE
Kipling’s “___ Din” (5)
GUNGA
Director of three Eastwood westerns (5)
LEONE
Scene ender in silent films (7)
IRISOUT
Classic TV character who worked at the Tropicana (12)
RICKYRICARDO
“Lord of the Flies” boy (5)
PIGGY
Behold, in Latin (4)
ECCE
Character name in “The Last of the Mohicans” and “Downton Abbey” (4)
CORA
Replace with a new contract, in legalese (6)
NOVATE
Musical counterpart of pizzicato (4)
ARCO
___ de Lesseps of the “Real Housewives” franchise (5)
LUANN
Kenneth of “Oppenheimer” (7)
BRANAGH
Former French president Jacques (6)
CHIRAC
Brando’s role in “A Streetcar Named Desire” (8)
KOWALSKI
MSNBC host Melber (3)
ARI
Early Ron Howard role (4)
OPIE
British sci-fi novelist McDonald (3)
IAN
Behold, in Latin (4)
ECCE
Character name in “The Last of the Mohicans” and “Downton Abbey” (4)
CORA
Greek island south of Naxos (3)
IOS
Replace with a new contract, in legalese (6)
NOVATE
Musical counterpart of pizzicato (4)
ARCO
Hall of Famer Ronnie who won four Super Bowls with the 49ers (4)
LOTT
Some characters in Japanese writing (8)
HIRAGANA
Magician’s schtick (6)
PATTER
Arrow maker, historically (7)
FLETCHER
Actor who played one of the burglars in Home Alone (5)
PESCI
Improvises: hype. (8)
JURYRIGS
Smeltery refuse (4)
SLAG
Trick-taking game that’s French for “discarded” (6)
ECARTE
Gulf War helicopter (6)
APACHE
Floral bits used in some herbal remedies (8)
ROSEHIPS
Roman soldier (9)
LEGIONARY
Genoese god (3)
DIO
Laura in the Songwriters Hall of Fame (4)
NYRO
Pear or quince (4)
POME
Member of the constellation Aquila (6)
ALTAIR
Rapper Kool ___ Dee (3)
MOE
Detective Monaghan in Laura Lippman novels (4)
TESS
People in many Louise Erdich books (6)
OJIBWE
Soviet spymaster in Le Carré novels (5)
KARLA
Tanglewood performing grp. (3)
BSO
Chess rating system (3)
ELO
Mount Saint ___, 2nd highest mountain in the USA (5)
ELIAS
Twisted do (4)
LOCS
Slender, elegant woman (5)
SYLPH
“Secrets & Lies” Oscar nominee ___ Jean-Baptiste (8)
MARIANNE
Sugary and helical South Asian street food (6)
JALEBI
Rathbone who played Sherlock Holmes in 14 films (5)
BASIL
Marvel villain who asks a museum director, “How do you think your ancestors got these? You think they paid a fair price?” (10)
KILLMONGER
Beauty influencer and co-founder of the life-style brand FORVR MOOD (10)
JACKIEAINA
James for whom a NASA telescope is named (4)
WEBB
Glass artist Chihuly (4)
DALE
Rose of “Bridesmaids” (5)
BYRNE
“Kate & ___” (1980s sitcom) (5)
ALLIE
___ curiae (friend of the court) (6)
AMICUS
Orbiter that might support broadband, for short (6)
COMSAT
Grammy-winning country singer whose greatest-hits album is titled “Songs from an Aging Sex Bomb” (7)
KTOSLIN
Mythical figure thwarted in his attempts to snatch low-hanging fruit (8)
TANTALUS
Artistic representation of Mary cradling Jesus (5)
PIETA
Toothless whale’s oral sieve (6)
BALEEN
“___ courage!” (3)
BON
Makeup brand known for its risqué product names (4)
NARS
___ script (screenwriter’s pitch) (4)
SPEC
English filmmaker David or Peter (5)
YATES
Reclusive emperor who succeeded his stepfather Augustus (8)
TIBERIUS
Hearty kiss (4)
BUSS
Actress Garson with seven Oscar nominations (5)
GREER
CNN anchor Bash (4)
DANA
___ Dingbats (icon-filled font) (4)
ZAPF
El ___ (Castilian hero) (3)
CID
N.S.A.’s home (7)
FTMEADE
Epithet for a G.O.P. moderate, maybe (4)
RINO
Individual speech patterns (9)
IDIOLECTS
Fireworks ingredient (5)
NITER
“Peter Pan” pooch (4)
NANA
Chemistry Nobelist Rutherford (6)
ERNEST
Powell of the Federal Reserve (6)
JEROME
Eva of “Green Acres” (5)
GABOR
Where a ship’s compass is kept (8)
BINNACLE
The Florida Project director Baker (4)
SEAN
“Take it from the top” notation (6)
DACAPO
Coutroom call (4)
OYES
Italian luxury brand know for its paisley prints (4)
ETRO
Stirring oration: hype (10)
STEMWINDER
Basement bar (11)
RATHSKELLER
Anatomical name for the big toe (6)
HALLUX
Actress Jacqueline (6)
BISSET
Howard who was named TV Guide’s all-time best Sportscaster in 1993 (6)
CASELL
What “Sophia” means in Greek (6)
WISDOM
Actor Giovanni (6)
RIBISI
Composer John of Cabaret and Chicago (6)
KANDER
Ellen Swallow ___, first woman admitted to MIT and first American woman to be awarded a degree in chemistry (8)
RICHARDS
Shiny gold fabric (4)
LAME
Main character of Disney’s Wish (4)
ASHA
Rock band that included married couple Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore (10)
SONICYOUTH
One of the two rival kingdoms in The Princes Bride (6)
FLORIN
This is Spinal Tap director Rob (6)
REINER
Belches, formally (6)
ERUCTS
Small dome (6)
CUPOLA
Plowing implement (6)
HARROW
Bad choice at the betting window (3)
NAG
Unit of electrical capacitance (5)
FARAD
Bet like an exacta, except that the order of the two horses doesn’t matter (8)
QUINELLA
Hotel for hit men in the “John Wick” movies (10)
CONTINENTAL
Shot from the Civil War, say (7)
TINTAPE
He-Man’s twin sister (5)
SHERA
Icelandic literary saga (4)
EDDA
The smaller of Mars’ two moons (6)
DEIMOS
Jazz standard composed by Hoagy Carmichael (8)
STARDUST
D’Angelo and Erykah Badu collaborator J ___ (5)
DILLA
Schiaparelli who collaborated with Salvador Dalí on a shoe hat (4)
ELSA
Design with three lobes, as the Adidas logo (7)
TREFOIL
“___’s Awakening” (acclaimed 2022 concept album about a Punjabi space princess) (4)
ASHA
Malevolent (7)
BALEFUL
Round part of a county fair ribbon (7)
ROSETTE
Actor Milo whom Roger Ebert called “that twinkly professional Irishman” (5)
OSHEA
Clever person (9)
BELESPRIT
Poet Leonard (5)
COHEN
Composer Schumann (5)
CLARA
Handle of a knife (4)
HAFT
Petite ___ (4)
AMIE
Cart for the Budweiser Clydesdales, e.g. (4)
DRAY
Japanese game using pentagonal pieces (5)
SHOGI
Jack ___, Best Supporting Actor nominee for 1940’s “The Great Dictator” (5)
OAKIE
The so-called “heart of the scorpion” in the night sky (7)
ANTARES
“___ and the Thirteenth Confession” (Laura Nyro album) (3)
ELI
Case for indirect objects (6)
DATIVE
“Birthday Letters” poet Hughes (3)
TED
Electro-pop duo Sylvan ___ (4)
ESSO
Resort town on the Bay of Naples (8)
SORRENTO
Kingdom east of Babylonia (4)
ELAM
Infamous informant (10)
DEEPTHROAT
Palme ___ (honor for “Anora” in 2024) (3)
DOR
Anti-apartheid activist Alan (5)
PATON
Mystic associated with the Dead Sea Scrolls (6)
ESSENE
Sautéed-and-simmered Japanese dish (7)
KINPIRA
Nutrient-rich soil component (5)
HUMUS
British designer Crawford awarded a C.B.E. in 2021 (4)
ILSE
___ Park, Colo. (5)
ESTES
Hanna-Barbera character who co-starred with Secret Squirrel (7)
ATOMANT
Captain Hook’s sidekick (4)
SMEE
Rock-clinging mollusk (6)
LIMPET
Plant in the pepper family (5)
BETEL
Ancient capital of Egypt (6)
THEBES
More mawkish (7)
SAPPIER
Civil War general Doubleday (5)
ABNER
Tony- and Oscar-winning actor José (6)
FERRER
Fool’s gold (6)
PYRITE
Madam C.J. ___, America’s first female self-made millionaire (6)
WALKER
Agatha Christie detective (6)
MARPLE
Molding near the top of a wall (7)
CORNICE
Pig relative also called a javelina (7)
PECCARY
Extra blank page in a book (9)
INTERLEAF
Ruler who signed the Magna Carta (8)
KINGJOHN
Christmas display (6)
CRECHE
Detective Wolfe (4)
NERO