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CrosswordDictionary2025Mar Flashcards

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___ Moore, author of “V for Vendetta” (4)

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ALAN

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Son of Prince Valiant (3)

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ARN

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Part of the eye responsible for sharp central vision (5)

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FOVEA

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Folk song figure who is implored not to cry (7)

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SUSANNA

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Fallen angel whose name means “light bearer” (7)

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LUCIFER

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Pro wrestler Blanchard (5)

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TESSA

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Longtime host Robert of NPR’s “All Things Considered” (6)

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SIEGEL

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German astronomer Friedrich (6)

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BESSEL

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“Black Narcissus” author Godden (5)

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RUMER

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G.R.O.S.S. enemy in “Calvin and Hobbes” (5)

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SUSIE

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Outfit whose technology helps enhance C.G.I. realism, informally (9)

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MOCAPSUIT

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Roxie ___, lead character in “Chicago” (4)

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HART

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Cartoon series about a super robot (7)

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VOLTRON

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___ Convy, host of TV’s “Super Password” and “Win, Lose or Draw” (4)

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BERT

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Blyton of children’s literature (4)

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ENID

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Daughter of Padmé Amidala (9)

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LEIAORGANA

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17
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Author Shaw (5)

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IRWIN

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18
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“Denmark’s a prison” speaker (6)

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HAMLET

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Michael Nesmith, once (6)

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MONKEE

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English actress Bamber (5)

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ELLIE

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Long-lived being in Buddhist cosmology (4)

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DEVA

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1960s TV role for Diana Rigg (7)

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MRSPEEL

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Pro ___ (4)

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RATA

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Company that owns Words With Friends (5)

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ZYNGA

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Back bones (5)
SACRA
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Proteins hypothetically responsible for mad cow disease (6)
PRIONS
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Architectural projection (5)
ORIEL
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Gladstone rival in British politics (8)
DISRAELI
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Reddish-brown semiprecious stone (4)
SARD
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"Doctor Who" vehicle that mimics a police box (6)
TARDIS
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Russian fighter jet (3)
MIG
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Subject of the 2006 comedy “Thank You for Smoking” (10)
BIGTOBACCO
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Biblical patriarch who begat Methuselah (5)
ENOCH
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"Twister" star Bill (6)
PAXTON
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Short-lived Solomon of a nursery rhyme (6)
GRUNDY
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Surrealist painter Carrington (7)
LEONORA
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Bugsy's last name (6)
SIEGEL
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Thickness adjuster at a sawmill (6)
PLANER
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Offer unsolicited advice at the card table (6)
KIBITZ
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Dollar, informally (4)
CLAM
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Particles consisting of three quarks, such as protons and neutrons (7)
BARYONS
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Disney prequel series about the formation of the Rebel Alliance (5)
ANDOR
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Goddess sometimes compared to the Virgin Mary (4)
ISIS
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___ pants (loose-fitting garb) (5)
HAREM
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Sprinkled with seasoning, in Italian (6)
SALATA
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Lenny & ___ (California-based cookie brand) (6)
LARRYS
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Dame Nellie ___, opera diva for whom Escoffier named a peach dessert (5)
MELBA
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Greek goddess of the moon (6)
SELENE
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Maria's rival in "The Sound of Music" (4)
ELSA
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Side wager on a sporting event, informally (7)
PROPBET
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"Nebraska" actor Bruce (4)
DERN
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Ornate water heater (7)
SAMOVAR
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Trick-taking card game whose name is a mild oath (6)
OHHELL
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"Star Trek" role for Saldaña and Nichols (5)
UHURA
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Advice columnist Lederer who wrote under the pen name Ann Landers (5)
EPPIE
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“Rum Punch” writer Leonard (6)
ELMORE
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Australian actress Davis (5)
ESSIE
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Home drainage option (4)
SUMP
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___ Sioux Nation (Nebraska tribe) (6)
SANTEE
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Swimmer Diana who was the subject of a 2023 bio-pic (4)
NYAD
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Playwright Joe portrayed by Gary Oldman in “Prick Up Your Ears” (5)
ORTON
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My Chemical Romance frontman Way (6)
GERARD
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Cramped attic room (6)
GARRET
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"___ Mouse," Chick Corea jazz standard of 1972 (5)
SENOR
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“S.N.L.” alum Bryant (4)
AIDY
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Boy on "The Andy Griffith Show" (4)
OPIE
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“Guardians of the Galaxy” director James (4)
GUNN
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Influential jurist Richard (6)
POSNER
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Down time before a good time (8)
DISCONAP
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Burger magnate Ray (4)
KROC
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James of "The Godfather" (4)
CAAN
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Printing sizes for Shakespeare (7)
QUARTOS
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Wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (5)
RAISA
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Larger marble flicked into play (3)
TAW
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Name of two Monty Python members (5)
TERRY
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Corrin of "Nosferatu" (4)
EMMA
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City that briefly served as the Kingdom of Italy’s de-facto capital during the Second World War (7)
SALERNO
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"At the Movies with Ebert and ___" (6)
ROEPER
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Latin "Look" (4)
ECCE
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Light-reflection measure (6)
ALBEDO
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The "magic" in some mushrooms (10)
PSILOCYBIN
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Nashville director Robert (6)
ALTMAN
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Persuasive deception (9)
SOPHISTRY
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Rockefeller Plaza muralist (4)
SERT
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"Welcome to the Jungle" band, in brief (3)
GNR
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Model Rau (4)
INES
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___ Hindmarch, handbag designer with a 2025 damehood (4)
ANYA
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Longtime music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra (9)
TOSCANINI
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Tour de France stage (5)
ETAPE
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Org. with a special tax designation (5)
SCORP
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Seer cursed by Apollo so that her prophecies would not be believed (9)
CASSANDRA
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“World War Z” actress Mireille (4)
ENOS
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Pushkin antihero Eugene ___ (6)
ONEGIN
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Kaplan of 1970s TV (4)
GABE
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"Welcome Back, Kotter" role of 1970s TV (4)
GABE
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Ex ___ (from one side, in legalese) (5)
PARTE
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Pear-shaped fruit (6)
QUINCE
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Incan emperor captured by Pizarro's forces (9)
ATAHUALPA
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Military alert status system (6)
DEFCON
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Kafka's longest novel, despite being left unfinished (9)
THECASTLE
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Academy Award nominee for “Wild at Heart” (9)
DIANELADD
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Comedian Wyatt (5)
CENAC
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Sight from lunar orbit (9)
EARTHRISE
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"The Seduction of Joe ___" (1979 Alan Alda film) (5)
TYNAN
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Common variety of Antarctic penguin (6)
ADELIE
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Either Michale Madonna or Danny Tamberelli, on a ‘90s Nickelodeon show (4)
PETE
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Strategy to attract more website visitors, briefly (3)
SEO
108
Italian bread (4)
PANE
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___ Gold, pretzel brand (4)
ROLD
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Robert Wuhl sitcom about a sports agent (6)
ARLISS
111
Short Japanese sword (5)
TANTO
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Members of a Turkic confederation (6)
TATARS
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Type of metamorphic rock (6)
SCHIST
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Paint sometimes made with egg yolk (7)
TEMPERA
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Herman Hesse novel (6)
DEMIAN
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Santa-tracking org. (5)
NORAD
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Self-soothe, in a way (4)
STIM
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Mark who coined the term “Afrofuturism” (4)
DERY
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Impressionist painter Sisley (6)
ALFRED
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Thneed knitter, in Seuss (7)
ONCELER
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Actor Lash of old Westerns (5)
LARUE
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Prometheus’ gift to humanity, in Greek myth (4)
FIRE
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"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" poet (5)
WILDE
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Nickerson in the Nancy Drew universe (3)
NED
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Writings of dubious authenticity (9)
APOCRYPHA
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Gulf east of the Sinai peninsula (5)
AQABA
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Eric B. And ___ (pioneering hip-hop duo) (5)
RAKIM
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1960s diplomat Dean (4)
RUSK
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Bawdy (6)
RIBALD
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Bel ___ cheese (5)
PAESE
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Timpanist Jones who co-founded the racially integrated Symphony of the New World, which performed its première concert in 1965 (6)
ELAYNE
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Very bright, very distant supermassive black hole (6)
QUASAR
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Fosse/___ (biographical miniseries about Broadway legends Bob and Gwen) (6)
VERDON
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Union seeking to regulate how creative work is used to train A.I. models (3)
WGA
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Older Dunphy daughter on "Modern Family" (5)
HALEY
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___ Woods, best-selling author of 2023's "The Lost Bookshop" (4)
EVIE
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Producer of the "Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend" podcast (8)
TEAMCOCO
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"Damage" director Louis (5)
MALLE
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Wallace ___, modernist American poet (7)
STEVENS
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First lady McKinley (3)
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