CrosswordDictionary2024Oct Flashcards
Liu regarded as China’s first supermodel (3)
WEN
Indian fried bread (5)
POORI
Carp kin (4)
DACE
Apollo vehicle, briefly (3)
LEM
Barnett of CBS News (5)
ERROL
Company that invented black-light fluorescent paint (6)
DAYGLO
Playwright Bogosian (4)
ERIC
Horror filmmaker Aster (3)
ARI
Bobby of the Black Panthers (5)
SEALE
Like Russia before 1917 (7)
TSARIST
Tad (5)
SKOSH
Drinkers’ vessels (8)
TANKARDS
Name of the whale in “Pinocchio” (7)
MONSTRO
John Singer Sargent portrait that scandalized Paris in 1884 (7)
MADAMEX
Digestive enzyme (6)
LIPASE
“Queen of the Jungle,” in comics (6)
SHEENA
Marilyn who sang “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” (5)
MCCOO
Tool with metal jaws (8)
CALIPERS
A.S.A.P. (3)
PDQ
German possessive (5)
MEINE
Cowardly Lion portrayer (4)
LAHR
Thompson of the box-office bomb “Howard the Duck” (3)
LEA
Longtime guitarist for the Eagles (8)
JOEWALSH
Lead-in to coin, for a meme currency (4)
DOGE
Wheel and deal, especially on the Hill (10)
HORSETRADE
Boy protagonist of Netflix’s “Sex Education” (4)
OTIS
French vineyard designation (3)
CRU
Western topper (7)
STETSON
White-tailed sea eagle (4)
ERNE
Ancient Greek physician (5)
GALEN
Master luthier (5)
AMATI
Agriculture goddess (5)
CERES
“A Boy Named ___,” Johnny Cash’s highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 (3)
SUE
Writer Norman Vincent __ (5)
PEALE
Director Van Sant (3)
GUS
Send back, as to a lower court (6)
REMAND
Pris : rue :: Berline : (7)
STRASSE
Two-time Nobel-winning physicist John (7)
BARDEEN
Small drum (5)
TABOR
Crude and tactless (6)
GAUCHE
“Little Shop of Horrors” lyricist Howard (6)
ASHMAN
Actress Noblezada of “Hadestown” (3)
EVA
Traditional Japanese dagger (5)
TANTO
Member of a certain Urdu-speaking Arab and South Asian community (6)
ANSARI
Lega commentator Honig (4)
ELIE
Soviet film director Tarkovsky (6)
ANDREI
Hint-giving columnist (8)
HELOISE
Rara ___ (4)
AVIS
Thing, legally speaking (3)
RES
Charles Mingus’s instrument (4)
BASS
Chills and fever (4)
AGUE
Playwright David (4)
RABE
Elephant-headed Hindu god of beginnings (6)
GANESH
Longtime language columnist William (6)
SAFIRE
Catkin-bearing trees (6)
ALDERS
Flower part that includes the ovary (6)
CARPEL
Misanthropic titular aardvark of comic books (7)
CEREBUS
Cartoon franchise with Tygra and Lion-O (11)
THUNDERCATS
Taito NES game in which Victor must assemble and wield a powerful blade to defeat the Dark Fiend (10)
DEMONSCODE
Hawaii congresswoman who coauthored Title IX (9)
PATSYMINK
Informal lecture to educate people about a cause (7)
TEACHIN
Commotion or fuss (6)
POTHER
Ibis-headed god of wisdom (5)
THOTH
Julia of The Walking Dead: World Beyond (6)
ORMOND
Painter Klein who created the color International Klein Blue (4)
YVES
Longtime host of a namesake variety show on CBS (10)
EDSULLIVAN
Architect Buckminster (6)
FULLER
Dance craze of the 1960s (6)
WATUSI
Boxer Thomas nicknamed “The Hitman” (6)
HEARNS
Liverpool’s river (6)
MERSEY
Prescription blood thinner (6)
PLAVIX
Tippi Hedren title role (6)
MARNIE
Makeup of the arches in Arches National Park (9)
SANDSTONE
Hollywood legend Dolores (6)
DELRIO
Centaur who tutored Achilles (6)
CHIRON
Ellen of Animal Kingdom (6)
BARKIN
Dancer Fonteyn (6)
MARGOT
McDaniel who was the first Black Oscar winner (6)
HATTIE
Red Sox slugger Rafael (6)
DEVERS
Hard clear plastic (6)
LUCITE
Stoic philosopher and playwright (6)
SENECA
Seventeen-hundred-dollar bassinet with a “cult-like fandom in the parenting world,” per Wirecutter (4)
SNOO
Handheld snack of nori-wrapped rice (7)
ONIGIRI
Site of the ancient city of Miletus (5)
IONIA
The “A” of A. & M. Records (6)
ALPERT
Activist Ayaan Hirsi ___ who wrote “Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now” (3)
ALI
Boy elected chief in “Lord of the Flies” (5)
RALPH
Sitcom character who used the greeting “Nanu-Nanu” (4)
MORK
Train in the Washington-Baltimore area (4)
MARC
Actress Gardner (3)
AVA
Tickle Me Elmo maker (4)
TYCO
Aware of (5)
HIPTO
___ Le Gallienne, star of 1920s Broadway (3)
EVA
Simpson’s judge (3)
ITO
Pet for Pebbles, in cartoons (4)
DINO
Spanish for “foolish” (5)
TONTO
Beethoven’s third symphony (6)
EROICA
Attack, medieval-style (6)
TILTAT
River to the English Channel (5)
SOMME
___ Owl, one of the superheroes in “Watchmen” (4)
NITE
Ice planet in “The Empire Strikes Back” (4)
HOTH
Insectoid moon dwellers in H.G. Wells’s “The First Men in the Moon” (9)
SELENITES
Anna ___, first Italian to win an acting Oscar (7)
MAGNANI
Online home services marketplace (4)
ANGI
Mountain biking move akin to a front wheelie (4)
ENDO
First name in classic horror films (3)
LON
___ Thai (Vietnamese fruit cocktail) (3)
CHE
Letters on old kopecks (4)
CCCP
Boil down (6)
DECOCT
Penalty box, in hockey slang (6)
SINBIN
Janis’s cartoon partner (4)
ARLO
Superhero alter ego for Kathy Kane (8)
BATWOMAN
Guitarist Joe of the Eagles (5)
WALSH
“Gadzooks!” (6)
ZOUNDS
Heroic knight of medieval Spain (5)
ELCID
Jazz great Coltrane (5)
ALICE
“Farmer” in Afrikaans (4)
BOER
English Renaissance composer William with an avian-sounding surname (4)
BYRD
Keir ___, actor with the classic sci-fi line “Open the pod bay doors, HAL” (6)
DULLEA
Mali Empire ruler who caused widespread inflation by spending so lavishly during his 14th-century hajj (9)
MANSAMUSA
Sylvia who was considered the “Grand Dame of British Cinema” (4)
SYMS
Loudly laments (5)
KEENS
Blood of the gods, in Greek mythology (5)
ICHOR
Ray who helped globalize McDonald’s (4)
KROC
Actress Jeffries of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” (4)
LEAH
Medieval tales of daring adventure (5)
GESTS
L’il ___ (5)
ABNER
Comedian Youngman (5)
HENNY
Sycophants (6)
YESMEN
Virtual music idol Hatsune ___ (4)
MIKU
Paint sloppily (4)
DAUB
“Cosmogramma” musician, to fans (5)
FLYLO
History-making conductor Marin (5)
ALSOP
M.L.K., Jr., was its first president (4)
SCLC
Exemplar (9)
BEAUIDEAL
Socialist revolutionary Luxemburg (4)
ROSA
Investigator, in old slang (3)
TEC
Shi who was the first woman to have the sole director’s credit on a Pixar feature, for “Turning Red” (5)
DOMEE
Runner Joan ___ Samuelson, who won gold in the first women’s Olympic marathon, in 1984 (6)
BENOIT
“Avatar: The Last Airbender” protagonist (4)
AANG
Shaded area (5)
ARBOR
Classic Neapolitan song (8)
OSOLEMIO
Mythical Cretan king (5)
MINOS
Boxer Patterson (5)
FLOYD
“Collapsed in Sunbeams” singer-songwriter Parks (4)
ARLO
Tennis champion Tokito (3)
ODA
Portrayer of Laurie Strode in seven “Halloween” films (6)
CURTIS
Warren of the Allman Brothers Band (6)
HAYNES
“Star Wars” planet that’s home to womp rats (8)
TATOOINE
Eucharist plate (5)
PATEN
Moses portrayer in classic film (6)
HESTON
Last word (5)
FINIS
Honors for David Beckham and Leona Lewis: Abbr. (4)
OBES
“Mon ___!” (4)
DIEU
Suitor of Christine in “The Phantom of the Opera” (5)
RAOUL
___ Sidle, longtime role on “C.S.I.” (4)
SARA
Antonio López de Santa ___, three-time president of Mexico (4)
ANNA
Japanese art of flower arrangement (7)
IKEBANA
Pioneering computer (5)
ENIAC
Jazz singer Cleo (5)
LAINE
Actor-turned-policeman Estrada (4)
ERIK
Woodworking tool (4)
RASP
Tennille of Captain & Tennille (4)
TONI
Shooting marble (3)
TAW
Aide-___ (mnemonic device) (7)
MEMOIRE
Nobility (7)
PEERAGE
___ Low, famed English pirate (3)
NED
Rubik of puzzle cube fame (4)
ERNO
Gail of “NYPD Blue” (5)
OGRADY
19th century women’s rights advocate Amelia (7)
BLOOMER
Wildflower once thought to repel pests (8)
FLEABANE
Cooks (up) (4)
GINS