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
“Catch-22” pilot played by Bob Balaban (3)
ORR
Connecticut governor Lamont (3)
NED
Switzerland’s __ Léman (3)
LAC
Comedian Delaney (3)
ROB
Impressionist painter born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (8)
CASSATT
Electronics component (5)
DIODE
Guitarist, informally (5)
AXMAN
Oil container (5)
CRUET
Tomato-sauce brand named for a famed Harlem restaurant (4)
RAOS
Julia Roberts’s role in the “Ocean’s” films (4)
TESS
Neighborhood in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley (6)
ENCINO
___ Okorafor, Hugo- and Nebula-winning novelist (5)
NNEDI
Former queen born Lisa Najeeb Halaby (4)
NOOR
Racecourse near Windsor Castle (5)
ASCOT
Agcy. affected by the wane of afternoon newspapers (3)
UPI
Slain mythical giant whose many eyes are said to be immortalized in peacock feathers (5)
ARGUS
Portrayer of Bond in 1967’s “Casino Royale” (5)
NIVEN
Longtime Obama adviser Valerie (7)
JARRETT
Victorious admiral at the Battle of Trafalgar (6)
NELSON
Chef El-Waylly of “The Big Brunch” (5)
SOHLA
Comedian Mort who hosted the first Grammys (4)
SAHL
Type of subatomic particle made up of quarks (6)
HADRON
Batiste with the 2021 album “We Are” (3)
JON
Blood-work letters (3)
LDL
British comedian Alan (4)
CARR
Nineteenth-century cowboy who claimed to have earned the nickname Deadwood Dick in a roping contest (7)
NATLOVE
Metallica drummer Ulrich (4)
LARS
Literature Nobel laureate Bashevis Singer (5)
ISAAC
Gush with naches (5)
KVELL
Sr. officer (3)
CDR
Vinyl records, slangily (3)
WAX
French cup (5)
TASSE
Poetic name for England (6)
ALBION
“Casey ate the Bat” poet Ernest (6)
THAYER
Surname of father/son sportswriters Dick and Jeremy (6)
SCHAAP
Film critic Richard (6)
ROEPER
Queen played by Lena Headey on Game of Thrones (6)
CERSEI
European river through our world capitals (6)
DANUBE
Petty of “Orange is the New Black” (4)
LORI
Jackson with two Oscars (6)
GLENDA
Of top quality (5)
PRIMO
Columnist Joseph (5)
ALSOP
Brazil-based artistic movement of the 1960s (10)
TROPICALIA
Boone, briefly (4)
DANL
Florentine flower (4)
ARNO
White-crested duck (4)
SMEW
Pete briefly in the Beatles (4)
BEST
Gem whose varieties include emerald and aquamarine (5)
BERYL
Classic jukebox brand (9)
WURLITZER
Inexperienced newcomer (9)
GREENHORN
Brazilian music genre pioneered by João Gilberto (9)
BOSSANOVA
U.K. publishing house where T. S. Eliot was once a director (5)
FABER
Concessions (4)
SOPS
“La Clemenza di ___” (Mozart opera) (4)
TITO
Chancellor Adenauer (6)
KONRAD
___ Island, Nunavut (world’s fifth-largest Island) (6)
BAFFIN
Songwriter Johnny who cofounded Capitol Records (6)
MERCER
“Lido Shuffle” singer Boz (6)
SCAGGS
Michael who made billions from junk bonds (6)
MILKEN
Joey, Johnny, Tommy, or Dee Dee (6)
RAMONE
Old TV detective played by Mike Connors (6)
MANNIX
Stick struck together by a percussionist (6)
CLAVES
Latin phrase meaning “from the beginning”: 2 wds. (6)
DE NOVO
Florentine house that produced four popes and two queens of France (6)
MEDICI
Ottoman official (6)
VIZIER
“Trees” poet Joyce (6)
KILMER
Language used on the Moana soundtrack (6)
SAMOAN
Early Chekhov play (6)
IVANOV
Harmonica brand (6)
HOHNER
Luise who won two Best Actress Oscars (6)
RAINER
Caesar depicted on Delaware’s state quarter (6)
RODNEY
Dubious film “honor” (6)
RAZZIE
Trial lawyer Gerry (6)
SPENCE
Rabindranath ___, first non-European Nobel Laureate in Literature (6)
TAGORE
Boxer Thomas nicknamed “The Hitman” (6)
HEARNS
Tippi Hedren title role (6)
MARNIE
Dance craze of the 1960s (6)
WATUSI
Prescription blood thinner (6)
PLAVIX
Norman ___, Cabinet member under Clinton and Bush (6)
MINETA
Star Trek: ___ (6)
PICARD
Tigers great Al (6)
KALINE
Title character in Funny Girl: 2 wds. (10)
FANNYBRICE
Actress Noomi (6)
RAPACE
Bay tree (6)
LAUREL
Candle material (6)
TALLOW
Progressive weekly since 1865, with “The” (6)
NATION
Bovine spongiform encephalopathypathy, more familiarity (13)
MADCOWDISEASE
Ebb’s songwriting partner (6)
KANDER
Sissy of Coal Miner’s Daughter (6)
SPACEK
University of Idaho’s home (6)
MOSCOW
Comic’s talk (6)
PATTER
Positively charged atom (6)
CATION
Resident or language of northwestern France (6)
BRETON
High chair? (6)
HOWDAH
Nativity scene (6)
CRECHE
Stiff drink (6)
BRACER
Flemish Baroque master (6)
RUBENS
Insect named for a woman Zeus transformed into a cow (6)
IOMOTH
Wonder Woman actress Nielsen (6)
CONNIE
Robert ___, a.k.a. the Birdman of Alcatraz (6)
STROUD
Crucial difficulty, to Hamlet (6)
THERUB
Raised for discussion (6)
MOOTED
Order, families, genus and species, e.g. (4)
TAXA
“Send these, the homeless, tempest-___ to me” (4)
TOST
Sociologist Durkheim (5)
EMILE
In the work mentioned earlier, in footnote abbreviations (5)
OPCIT
1970s Italian prime minister Aldo (55)
MORO
“A Man called Otto” director Forster (4)
MARC
Princess rescued from a sea monster in Greek mythology (9)
ANDROMEDA
Bandleader portrayed by his son in 1992’s “The Mambo Kings” (9)
DESIARNAZ
Fiction hero whose parents were Lord and Lady Greystroke (6)
TARZAN
Flemish cartographer Gerardus (8)
MERCATOR
Washington’s Grand ___ Dam (6)
CONLEE
William of “Sunset Boulevard” (6)
HOLDEN
Phyllis of comedy (6)
DILLER
Recoils in fright (6)
QUAILS
Sewing machine’s thread holder (6)
BOBBIN
What pyriform objects are shaped like (5)
PEARS
“The Dick Van Dyke Show” surname (6)
PETRIE
AMC show based on a comic book series (8)
PREACHER
Hands-behind-the-back position (10)
PARADEREST
Young Sinatra devotee of the ‘40s (10)
BOBBYSOXER
“X” star Goth (3)
MIA
“Stranger Things” character Sinclair (5)
ERICA
“The Daily Show” correspondent Lydic (4)
DESI
100 gecs singer Les (5)
LAURA
Acting great Philip (3)
AHN
“Justice League” director Zack (6)
SNYDER
Wolfgang Puck restaurant with a name implying there’s pasta on the menu (5)
SPAGO
Mountain near Mount Olympus (4)
OSSA
Cuban-American sculptor/performance artist Mendieta (3)
ANA
Highland promontory (4)
NESS
Erstwhile Dodge sports car (5)
VIPER
Title character of The Merchant of Venice (7)
ANTONIO
Ancient oracle site (6)
DELPHI
Main character of the 1972 novel First Blood (5)
RAMBO
Metaphor for erect posture (6)
RAMROD
Duck ___ (Marx Brothers comedy) (4)
SOUP
Jane Campion Western nominated for 12 Academy Awards (16)
THEPOWEROFTHEDOG
Acclaimed 2021 cooperative video game that does not have a single-player mode (10)
ITTAKESTWO
Apache leader born Goyaalé (8)
GERONIMO
French port from which hundreds of thousands of Allied troops were evacuated in May-June 1940 (7)
DUNKIRK
Resolute in the Oval Office, for one (4)
DESK
Actress Gabourey (6)
SIDIBE
Le ___ (French daily paper) (6)
FIGARO
Coastal recesses
BIGHTS
Is overcome with pride and joy (6)
KVELLS
Under-the-hood storage areas in electric vehicles (6)
FRUNKS
Formal etiquette (9)
POLITESSE
Hardy’s comedy partner (6)
LAUREL
1917 director Sam (6)
MENDES
Rome’s Via ___ (6)
VENETO
Photographer Stieglitz who war married to Georgia O’Keefe (6)
ALFRED
Connective organ tissue (6)
STROMA
Dome topper (6)
CUPOLA
Comedian Lily (6)
TOMLIN
1971 film that kicks off the so-called “Paranoia trilogy” (5)
KLUTE
“Kim Possible character” ___ Stoppable (7)
HANA
Organ removed during mummification, broadly speaking (6)
VISCUS
Magazine founder Eric (4)
UTNE
Buck of “True Blood” (4)
TARA
Founder of the Asante empire (8)
OSEITUTU
A bit of French (3)
PEU
1964 Hitchcock film (6)
MARNIE
Actress Holliday of “Gremlins” (5)
POLLY
Mystic spiritual knowledge (6)
GNOSIS
___ Armed Forces (Seoul-based corps) (3)
ROK
Lily Tomlin’s little-girl persona (8)
EDITHANN
Freshly pressed grapes before fermentation (4)
MUST
Oslo Accords signatory, for short (3)
PLO
Two-time Oscar nominee Joan (6)
CUSACK
Tony winner Judith (4)
IVEY
“ER” actress Laura (5)
INNES
“À votre ___!” (5)
SANTE
Van Susteren of TV news (5)
GRETA
Asian royal (4)
RANI
Kind of clock that’s ultraprecise (6)
ATOMIC
Ruck of HBO’s “Succession” (4)
ALAN
Actor Steve of “Peacemaker” (4)
AGEE
Hair-lightening brand (5)
SUNIN
The Lone Ranger, to Tonto (8)
KEMOSABE
Millimeter-wide photo used for conveying secret messages (8)
MICRODOT
Supermodel with a palindromic name (4)
EMME
___ Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first elected female head of state (5)
ELLEN
Co. that introduced Dungeons & Dragons (3)
TSR
Constellation in the southern sky (3)
ARA
Diminuendo al ___ (“fade to nothingness,” on a score) (6)
NIENTE
Europe’s highest volcano (6)
ELBRUS
Feature of James Earl Jones’s voice (8)
SONORITY
Crime novelist Josephine (3)
TEY
Skywalker portrayer (6)
HAMILL
Horned antelope of southern Africa (8)
STEENBOK
Elizabeth of “WandaVision” (5)
OLSEN
Portmanteau for Disney World’s wintery mix (5)
SNOAP
Key compound in a cell’s energy cycle: Abbr. (3)
ADP
Frank Lloyd Wright estate in Wisconsin (8)
TALIESIN
“The __ Andre Show” (4)
ERIC
Traditional shaving tool (5)
STROP
HBO series about a hitman who joins an acting class (5)
BARRY
Harper Lee’s given name (5)
NELLE
__ phase: post-ovulation stage (6)
LUTEAL
Actress Birch (5)
THORA
In the know about (5)
HIPTO
Naval destroyer, in slang (6)
TINCAN
Novelist Scottoline known for legal thrillers (4)
LISA
Mets closer Díaz (5)
EDWIN
Stray adopted by Annie (5)
SANDY
Michael of “Caddyshack” (6)
OKEEFE
Fine fur (5)
SABLE
Nurse played by Ana de Armas in “Knives Out” (5)
MARTA
Bunch of arrows or documents (5)
SHEAF
Dallas Cowboys linebacker Parsons (5)
MICAH
Alternative to gel or acrylic, at a nail salon (7)
SHELLAC
Epithet for an Atlanta police-training center that has been protested by a range of justice groups (7)
COPCITY
Hawkish nationalist (5)
JINGO
“Late Autumn” director Kim ___-yong (3)
TAE
Pistol, to a hardboiled detective (6)
ROSCOE
Conveniences enclosed by letter writers: Abbr. (5)
SASES
French-Belgian river (4)
YSER
Director of “Atlantics,” winner of the 2019 Grand Prix at Cannes (8)
MATIDIOP
1968 Jane Fonda film, which she later said “could have been a feminist movie—and just as sexy” (10)
BARBARELLA
Elizabethan interjection (3)
FIE
Buenos Aires-to-Santiago dirección (5)
OESTE
___ War (1899-1902 conflict) (4)
BOER
Egyptian Christians (5)
COPTS
Harper’s Bazaar illustrator from the teens through the thirties (4)
ERTE
___ de deux (3)
PAS
19th century Mexican president ___ Juarez (6)
BENITO
Eleven, in Évian (4)
ONZE
Author Horatio (5)
ALGER
Drunk as a skunk (6)
BLOTTO
Rose of “Damages” (5)
BYRNE
“___ the Greek” (Nikos Kazantzakis novel) (5)
ZORBA
Vampire (6)
LESTAT
“Midsommar” director (8)
ARIASTER
Richard I’s opponent (7)
SALADIN
Actor Stonestreet of “Modern Family” (4)
ERIC
Li’l ___ (5)
ABNER
Carbon compound (4)
ENOL
Father of, in Ara (3)
ABU
Tubes used in sediment sample collecting (6)
CORERS
Rock singer Shirley (6)
MANSON
W.W. II arena (3)
ETO
___ powder (manicure type) (3)
DIP
Mistress of the Dark” in a 1988 film (6)
ELVIRA
“Apollo and ___” (Bernini masterpiece) (6)
DAPHNE
“___ Spiegel” (3)
DER
Japanese vegetable that looks sort of like white asparagus (3)
UDO
Baby Yoda, more formally (5)
GROGU
Jazz trumpet legend Jones (4)
THAD
“Patience” band, as in the album title where that song appears (3)
GNR
Evil goddess in “Thor: Ragnarok” (4)
HELA
“Good Times” star Esther ___ (5)
ROLLE
Poitiers pronoun (3)
TOI
“Heat” director Michael (4)
MANN
Neocon columnist Stephens (4)
BRET
Opera ___ (5)
SERIA
Mercedes-Benz model (6)
ACLASS
Mother of Mary (6)
STANNE