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INAUGURAL AWARDS CROSSWORD
Winners past, present and at least a few future populate this
Hollywood-heavy puzzle (no cheating!) BY FRE D PISCOPACROSS
1 ___ Men in Aleppo
5 Varda who shot with JR
10 Pillow prettifier
14 Number of Oscar wins
for Spencer Tracy
17 Peter Fonda’s
beekeeper role
18 Auditions for a part
19 Sushi delicacy that
Guillermo might savor
20 Pentagon, for one
22 Former E! News
anchor Sadler
23 Hefty volumes
24 Totally destroy
25 Orderly lineup
26 Insect in a hobby farm
64 Mrs. Eisenhower
65 Alma, to Day-Lewis’
Reynolds
66 Missouri message tally
68 Superheroic
screenplay nominee
69 Took the gold medal
70 Applies with
a sponge, say
74 Hanks’ Toy persona
75 Dunkirk’s commander
76 Bubbly bandleader
Lawrence
77 Homer’s outburst
78 Flightless Aussie avians
79 Cut off, as Michael
Shannon’s fingertip in
The Shape of Water
80 Goes yachting
81 Mind-trick master
82 Letters on an ambulance
83 64-Across’ husband
was one: Abbr.
84 Elisa player in
The Shape of Water
85 Subject of a
non-nominated
Sufjan Stevens song
86 Batik artisan
88 Curtain holder
89 Word before fry
or potatoes
90 “Well, ___-di-dah!”
91 Yalie
93 Worn-down pencil
94 Barker’s Sony Pictures
Classics partner
98 Nominated
first-time director
104 Mad Men actor Robert
106 London lavatory
107 Molly’s interlocutor
108 ___ rage (consequence
of juicing)
109 Post star with
the most Oscars
110 Aries or Leo
111 The “I” in IV
112 Castaway’s refuge
113 It’s sunken in Get Out
114 Pizzeria fixture
115 Mudbound director,
to friends
116 Crystal-ball gazer
117 Sweet spread
118 Prefix meaning “trillion”
DOWN
1 Father of Star Wars
2 Honey Boo Boo’s
real first name3 Petty quarrel
4 Vietnamese holiday
5 My Left Foot’s
Christy Brown was one
6 Rock with a
glittery center
7 Luggage tag datum
8 I Dream of Jeannie
actress Barbara
9 Conscription org.
10 Yance Ford’s ___ Island
11 It was Darkest for
Oldman’s Churchill
12 Dry as a desert
13 Nat King Cole’s
“___ Lisa”
14 Item that ties the pair
in 65-Across
15 Suffix with hard or soft
16 October birthstone
20 Sentimental ones
21 Storm center
27 Duffers, Duplasses
or Russos: Abbr.
28 Solder, say
29 Searchlight’s Utley
31 Fateful time for Caesar
32 Open with a razor blade
35 29-Down’s co-chief,
informally
36 Offering no challenge
37 Reacts to yeast
38 Tec h ’s c l i e n t
40 Start of a
Caesarean boast
41 Gutter sites
42 Jabberwocky start
43 Galifianakis plant
44 African Queen
screenwriter James
45 Nominee that brought
Day of the Dead to life
46 Golfer’s problem
47 He plays The Florida
Project’s father figure
50 Singer-actress
whose two nominations
are a first
51 Abode in the woods
52 Tr e a t e d , a s s o i l
55 Wonder ___
56 Profs’ helpers, for short
58 Social goofballs
60 Horrible Viking
of the comics
61 Yangtze riverboats
63 Susan of L.A. Law
64 Double agents
65 Biopic subject Bloom
66 Wiseau of
The Disaster Artist1
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68 Cared deeply for
69 “Mack the Knife”
composer Kurt
71 Port of Yemen
72 Hungary’s On ___
and Soul
73 Transformers star
whose surname sounds
meaty to the French
74 It’s newly legal in Cali
75 “Sunday in New York”
pianist Peter
76 Game of Thrones
fortification, with “The”
79 Bit of parsley
80 Discontinued
Swedish auto
81 Oscar bash host Elton
84 Full of oneself
85 Deli scale button
87 Injured anew,
as a ligament
89 Fox film’s Stacey
90 Late-blooming
nominee Manville
92 Lang of Smallville
94 Solo helmer Ron’s
star daughter
95 Still in the running
96 ASC ace Deakins
97 This studio chief’s name
is all woman, in Italia
98 Moo goo ___ pan
(Chinese dish)
99 ___ Corp., from which
Ellsberg stole the
Pentagon Papers
100 Art Deco notable
101 Dwarf planet
discovered in 2005
102 McGowan who’s
a thorn for Weinstein
103 ___ E. Coyote
104 Prefix with drama
105 Port of Algeria
109 Speedometer abbr.
110 W.C. Fields persona27 Politico Joe
28 Nominated
first-time director
30 Nominated Irish Lady
32 Patrick, to the
Governator
33 Butterfield of Hugo
34 “j” topper
35 Former MLB
commissioner Bud
37 Do a 10K
39 The Biggest Loser
regimen
43 Subject of 5-Across
duo’s doc
46 Dry cleaner’s challenge
47 One “D” of DVD
48 Crow’s call49 They often clash
in Hollywood
50 Sanctified, biblically
51 Would-be Oscar
presenter who won’t be
at the bat
52 Vesuvius outflow
53 ___ room (place to play)
54 The History of Rome
author
55 Thin cookie
56 ___ Up in Hollywood
57 I, Tonya distributor
59 Treat, as a sprain
60 Boxcar riders of old
61 Steve with his
second doc nom
62 Slight leadAnswers on page 199Exclusive exhibition sponsorSix decades of artwork by an iconic American artist
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