6/22/25
People Sunday
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1A
Canned meat made by Hormel
SPAM
5A
Pucker-inducing
TART
9A
Mountain like Mont Blanc or the Matterhorn
ALP
12A
___ Romeo (Italian sports car)
ALFA
13A
Cookie that inspired the Trader Joe’s cookies called “Joe-Joe’s”
OREO
14A
Tip of a stocking
TOE
15A
Series of posts on social media
FEED
16A
Believe to be
DEEM
17A
Embrace
HUG
18A
Playwright who won the 1963 Tony for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
EDWARD ALBEE
21A
“Spaceballs” director ___ Brooks
MEL
22A
Small glass container used by a pharmacist
VIAL
25A
TV interruptions
ADS
28A
1990s Chevrolet division that produced the Storm and the Tracker
GEO
30A
“Love Song” band named after a Serbian physicist
TESLA
31A
“Cleopatra” actor who starred in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
RICHARD BURTON
34A
Christmas song
CAROL
35A
Actor Stevens of “Downton Abbey”
DAN
36A
What your eyes do
SEE
37A
Side dish with pastrami
SLAW
38A
Big ___ (large truck)
RIG
40A
The Graduate director whose first film was Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
MIKE NICHOLS
47A
Center of a piece of corn
COB
One Clue Crossword
WordBrain
WordBubbles!
Word Whizzle
Words Crush
49A
Tools for cutting firewood
AXES
50A
Skip over
OMIT
51A
“Screech” or “snowy” bird
OWL
52A
The FBI’s Ten Most Wanted, for one
LIST
53A
“Ditto”
SAME
54A
“Holy smokes!”
GEE
55A
Jazz singer ___ James
ETTA
56A
Critter-catching contraption
TRAP
1D
Umpire’s call at home plate
SAFE
2D
Begged earnestly
PLED
3D
“These are ___ of my favorite things”: 2 wds.
AFEW
4D
Female counterpart of “Sir”
MADAM
5D
Tot who recently learned to walk
TODDLER
6D
Carpet measurement
AREA
7D
Film spool
REEL
8D
“Lara Croft: ___ Raider”
TOMB
9D
Nonreligious people
ATHEISTS
10D
Actor ___ Diamond Phillips
LOU
11D
Take down a ___ (humiliate)
PEG
19D
Fit for a king
REGAL
20D
“Said no one ___”
EVER
23D
Natural burn remedy
ALOE
24D
Take a trip down memory ___
LANE
25D
Rainbow shapes
ARCS
26D
Use a rotary phone
DIAL
27D
Mix, like eggs in a pan
SCRAMBLED
29D
“That’s curious …”
ODD
30D
Roman garment
TUNIC
32D
“___ Met Your Mother”: 2 wds.
HOW I
33D
Worker who prepares coffee drinks
BARISTA
39D
Movie that starred Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore
GHOST
41D
Curly cabbage
KALE
42D
Turnpike turnoff
EXIT
43D
Heron’s home
NEST
44D
“Funny Girl” star Sharif
OMAR
45D
Capital of Peru
LIMA
46D
Twelve-___ program
STEP
47D
Small yet essential part of a machine
COG
48D
“I ___ it all to you”
OWE