CrosswordDictionary2024Sep Flashcards
Singer Eydie (5)
GORME
Ship officers in charge of deck crews (6)
BOSUNS
People paid to plug products (6)
SHILLS
Tallies (6)
TOTSUP
1970s pitcher Fingers with an epic mustache (6)
ROLLIE
Daughter of King David (5)
TAMAR
Movie with saloons and gunfights (5)
OATER
Lines at self-checkout? (3)
UPC
Titular character of a 2011 animated film (5)
RANGO
The L word co-creator Chaiken (5)
ILENE
Chess great who is now a political commentator and human rights activist (8)
KASPAROV
Pam who played both Foxy Brown and Jackie Brown (5)
GRIER
Akins or Miller of country music (5)
RHETT
Title character of The Highlander film series: 2 wds. (13)
CONNORMACLEOD
Composer Morricone (5)
ENNIO
French fabric with a floral print, often (5)
TOILE
Amphetamines, in slang (8)
GREENIES
Prescription insomnia medicine (7)
LUNESTA
Rider of a donkey named Dapple, in literature: 2 wds. (11)
SANCHOPANZA
Moor (5)
HEATH
French author of The Red and the Black (8)
STENDAHL
Punishment for a troll, perhaps: 2 wds. (9)
SHADOWBAN
Frozen Italian dessert (7)
TORTONI
The Barber of Seville composer (7)
ROSSINI
Fabric whose name is French for “caterpillar” (8)
CHENILLE
H.I.V./AIDS activist Hydeia (9)
BROADBENT
God of war (4)
OGUN
Layered flatbread (7)
PARATHA
Tom ___ (Robert Duvall’s role in “The Godfather”) (5)
HAGEN
Truckers with handles (5)
CBERS
Entertainment org. for troops (3)
USO
Snoopy’s aviating nemesis (8)
REDBARON
George who invented a logic system (5)
BOOLE
Early online forum (6)
USENET
Ward of “The Fugitive” and “Gone Girl” (3)
ADA
Legendary pro wrestler Flair (3)
RIC
Wearing frumpy clothes (5)
DOWDY
“The Amazing Race” host Keoghan (4)
PHIL
Icelandic poet Sturluson (6)
SNORRI
Scottie in the White House in the 1940s (4)
FALA
Longtime senator Hatch (5)
ORRIN
AIDS researcher who was Time’s 1996 Man of the Year (7)
DAVIDHO
Greek moon goddess (6)
SELENE
Gary Ewing’s ex-wife on Dallas, played by Joan Van Ark (6)
VALENE
__ acid (soap making ingredient) (5)
OLEIC
Miranda who was nominated for an Oscar for playing Viv in Tom & Viv (9)
RICHARDSON
Hud costar Patricia (4)
NEAL
Songbirds of the bunting family (7)
TOWHEES
OMG or RFK, say (3)
TLA
Writer Waugh (4)
ALEC
Gilbert of “The Conners” (4)
SARA
Composer Webern (5)
ANTON
“The Love Boat” bartender (5)
ISAAC
Haines of “The View” (4)
SARA
Richard of “When Worlds Collide” (4)
DERR
Dee of Twister Sister (6)
SNIDER
Rudder attachment (6)
TILLER
Hall-of-Fame running back Jerome (6)
BETTIS
Dadaist Duchamp (6)
MARCEL
Residents of a holt (6)
OTTERS
Twelfth Night duke (6)
ORSINO
Belches, informally (6)
ERUCTS
Ready to fire, as an arrow (6)
NOCKED
Broken-down horse (6)
OLDNAG
Actor Malcolm-Jamal (6)
WARNER
Valley of the Dolls author Jacqueline (6)
SUSANN
XKCD cartoonist Randall (6)
MUNROE
Filmmaker Luis (6)
BUNUEL
Swelling of the thyroid (6)
GOITER
“The Beekeeper” actress Phylicia (6)
RASHAD
1992 Kentucky Derby winner named for his alien-like looks (7)
LILETEE
Colorado town whose name is related to the Spanish for “cottonwood” (7)
ALAMOSA
Chelsea of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” (7)
PERETTI
Superman actor Beatty (3)
NED
Pennsylvania Dutch pie (7)
SHOOFLY
“A Wrinkle in Time” actor Michael (4)
PENA
“Delta Dawn” country singer (11)
TANYATUCKER
Purnell who stars as Lucy on “Fallout” (4)
ELLA
___ the Destroyer (alliterative “Guardians of the Galaxy” character played by Dave Bautista) (4)
DRAX
Composer Bowers who co-directed the Academy Award-winning 2023 short “The Last Repair Shop” (4)
KRIS
Jazz musician who helmed the Arkestra (5)
SUNRA
Military leader who helped capture Detroit in 1812 (8)
TECUMSEH
Manufacturing giant originally known as the Pittsburgh Reduction Company (5)
ALCOA
Tucker who played drums for the Velvet Underground (3)
MOE
Lopez of “The Dirty Dozen” (5)
TRINI
Shaving brand (4)
AFTA
Baum princess (4)
OZMA
Critic Gene (6)
SHALIT
Mil. awards (4)
DSMS
Elevator tracks? (5)
MUZAK
Prizefighter Max (4)
BAER
Scottish tyke (5)
BAIRN
Phone service outfit (5)
TELCO
Epoch when the land bridge between Britain and Greenland disappeared (6)
EOCENE
River through Glasgow (5)
CLYDE
Regular (7)
HABITUE
Presence on many eighties and nineties covers (5)
FABIO
___ de cambio (exchange rate, in Spanish) (4)
TIPO
Lumber that yields colored substances (7)
DYEWOOD
Martinican psychiatrist and thinker who’s the subject of the 2024 book “The Rebel’s Clinic” (5)
FANON
Many Renaissance thinkers (9)
POLYMATHS
Sister label of Volt Records (4)
STAX
Temper (6)
ANNEAL
Actress Weaving of 2022’s “Babylon” (6)
SAMARA
Highly rated French vineyards (4)
CRUS
Musical character who sings “Just You Wait” (5)
ELIZA
___-deux (5)
ENTRE
___ Air (carrier to Taiwan) (3)
EVA
Mother of Perseus (5)
DANAE
“The Clan of the Cave Bear” heroine (4)
AYLA
Sebastian the ___, University of Miami mascot (4)
IBIS
Kristin ___, first woman to win six gold medals at a single Olympic games (4)
OTTO
Dismissive cry (3)
FEH
Plant also known as coffeeweed (7)
CHICORY
Val Kilmer’s “Top Gun” role (6)
ICEMAN
1990 civil rights law, briefly (3)
ADA
__ pump (4)
SUMP
Lew of “Dr. Kildare” films (5)
AYRES
Entertainment org. for troops (3)
USO
Greek summit (4)
OSSA
City with a cathedral known as “the ship of the Fens” (3)
ELY
German actor Buchholz of “The Magnificent Seven” (5)
HORST
Hair gel brand popular in the ‘80s (3)
DEP
California’s Point ___ Peninsula (5)
REYES
CNN chief domestic correspondent Jim (6)
ACOSTA
Bit of military mental deception (5)
PSYOP
Video game whose premier tournament had a $40 million prize pool in 2021, familiarly (4)
DOTA
South Asian dumplings (5)
MOMOS
Former “SNL” “Weekend Update” host Kevin (6)
NEALON
Mary of “The Maltese Falcon” (5)
ASTOR
1950s Korean president Syngman (4)
RHEE
Former Nebraska senator Ben (5)
SASSE
Walk unsteadily, like an old man (6)
DODDER
Hagar the Horrible’s wife (5)
HELGA
Currier’s partner in lithography (4)
IVES
Sentimental tunes heard in cabarets (10)
TORCHSONGS
___ torte (Austrian cake) (6)
SACHER
Simon ___ (“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” villain) (6)
LEGREE
Brightest star in Aquila (6)
ALTAIR
Pam who played Mindy in “Mork & Mindy” (6)
DAUBER
Musician Beck’s last name (6)
HANSEN
Herds of whales (4)
GAMS
Owner of the Millennium Falcon before Han (5)
LANDO
George Constanza’s mother on “Seinfeld” (7)
ESTELLE
French director Rohmer (4)
ERIC
___ mater (brain cover) (4)
DURA
Comic actor Barinholtz (3)
IKE
Soccer goalie Guillermo (5)
OCHOA
Classic record label (3)
EMI
Seafaring Tasman (4)
ABEL
Burstyn or Barkin (5)
ELLEN
Vardalos of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” (3)
NIA
Hyper-masculine (6)
VIRILE
Shriver who founded the Special Olympics (6)
EUNICE
Raipur ruler (4)
RANI
Former Brazilian airline (5)
VARIG
Worked (up) (3)
HET
Comic Marc (5)
MARON
“Fly the friendly skies” corp (3)
UAL
199 Kevin Kline movie (4)
DAVE
Sylvester’s “Rocky” co-star (5)
TALIA
Racer Yarbrough (4)
CALE
Mark over a short vowel (5)
BREVE
Iowa senator Ernst (4)
JONI
Former NFL running back Foster (5)
ARIAN
Light name (5)
KLIEG
Horvath of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” (3)
EMA
Hebrew month (4)
ELUL
Tierney of “NewsRadio” (5)
MAURA
___ Prize (prestigious award in mathematics) (4)
ABEL
Three-time Best Director Oscar winner in the 1930s (5)
CAPRA
Where Churchill, Stalin and Truman met in 1945 (7)
POSTDAM
Mulligan of 2022’s “She Said” (5)
CAREY
Miles Archer’s partner in a 1930 detective novel (8)
SAMSPADE
“Toys in the Attic” playwright Hellman (7)
LILLIAN
Scopes trial lawyer (6)
DARROW
Cheryl of “Charlie’s Angels” (4)
LADD
Another word for “Latvians” (5)
LETTS
“The Bad News Bears” actress Tatum (5)
ONEAL
Boisterous creation of comedian Barry Humpheries (8)
DAMEEDNA
Soldier’s temporary lodging (6)
BILLET
Rank above staff sergeant, in Marine slang (5)
GUNNY
“The English Patient” nurse (4)
HANA
Miss ___ (stylish mouse of Disney’s “The Rescuers”) (6)
BIANCA
Weighted cords used for catching game (5)
BOLAS
___ fish (Passover appetizer) (7)
GEFILTE
Spacecraft name since the 1960s (5)
SOYUZ
Moon lander acronym (3)
LEM
Horse-drawn carriage (4)
SHAY
Equine hybrid with striped legs (6)
ZEDONK
Agcy. that helps start-ups (3)
SBA
Roman goddess of childbirth (5)
DIANA
Hindu gentleman (4)
BABU
Crimean town in 1945 headlines (5)
YALTA
Pain ___ (French toast, in French) (5)
PERDU
Mountain grouping (6)
MASSIF
Painter Rousseau (5)
HENRI
Political analyst Walter (3)
AMY
Vacation isle in the Ionian Sea (5)
CORFU
“Assumption of the Virgin” painter (6)
TITIAN
John who explored the Northwest Passage (3)
RAE
Flowing movement between yoga poses (7)
VINYASA
Deceptive argument (7)
SOPHISM
Wash (4)
LAVE
“Here Comes the Hotstepper” artist Kamoze (3)
INI
CNN journalist Robertson (3)
NIC
Line with a constant bearing, in navigation (5)
RHUMB
Andrea ___ (ship that sank in 1956) (5)
DORIA
Electric Light Orchestra drummer Bevan (3)
BEV
___ Vep (film character whose name anagrams to “vampire”) (4)
IRMA
Protagonist of Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” (5)
SETHE
New Mexico’s ___ National Forest (4)
GILA
Parks whose cookbook “BraveTart” won the James Beard Award (6)
STELLA
Usually dry streambeds (7)
ARROYOS
Whoopi’s Oscar-winning role in “Ghost” (6)
ODAMAE
Lazarus with a sonnet on the Statue of Liberty (4)
EMMA
Obsessive fan of anime or video games, from the Japanese (5)
OTAKU
Legal writer Mystal (4)
ELIE
Comic Gillis (5)
SHANE
“Old ___,” country standard performed by Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley (4)
SHEP
Griswold of the “National Lampoon’s Vacation” films (5)
CLARK
Watch rim (5)
BEZEL
Actor Stoltz (4)
ERIC
Roam (about) (3)
GAD
Sea eagle (4)
ERNE
Hopping African primate (8)
BUSHBABY
“Killing Eve” actress Fiona (4)
SHAW
“Barbie” co-writer Baumbach (4)
NOAH
___ and salt fish (5)
ACKEE
Labor leader Jimmy (5)
HOFFA
Historian Eric who wrote “Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877” (5)
FONER