12/27/20
People Sunday
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1A
Mountain range that crosses Switzerland
Alps
5A
Scheme
Plan
9A
Massive
Huge
13A
___ Straits (“Walk of Life” band)
Dire
14A
Toy brick brand
Lego
15A
Title dinosaur in “The Good Dinosaur”
Arlo
16A
Nonbinary performer who plays Taylor Mason on “Billions”: 3 wds.
Asia Kate Dillon
19A
Vegetable that resembles a sweet potato
Yam
20A
“You can’t judge a book by ___ cover”
Its
21A
“The Many Sides of Yoko ___” (1974 album)
Ono
22A
“Do you need anything ___?”
Else
24A
Flower-to-be
Bud
25A
Prefix for “diagnose” or “conceive”
Mis
28A
Silences the TV audio
Mutes
30A
Genderfluid performer who played Kate Kane on “Batwoman”: 2 wds.
Ruby Rose
32A
“The Adventures of Milo and ___” (1986 movie about a cat and dog)
Otis
33A
___ tense (verb tense for “came” and “went”)
Past
34A
Tolstoy heroine Karenina
Anna
35A
Nonbinary singer who won an Oscar for the Bond theme “Writing’s on the Wall”: 2 wds.
Sam Smith
37A
“NCIS: New Orleans” star Bakula
Scott
38A
“That’s what ___ said!”
She
39A
Cave-___ (dangerous collapses)
Ins
40A
Device for winding up a fishing line
Reel
41A
It can stain a newspaper reader’s hands
Ink
42A
Meat that’s sometimes honey-glazed
Ham
43A
Bumbling person
Oaf
46A
Genderfluid model who played Margo Spiegelman in “Paper Towns”: 2 wds.
Carade Levingne
51A
Pronged end of an electrical cord
Plug
52A
Ivy League school whose teams are the Bulldogs
Yale
One Clue Crossword
WordBrain
WordBubbles!
Word Whizzle
Words Crush
53D
A baseball triple play counts as three of these
Outs
54D
Nevada city that, appropriately, rhymes with “casino”
Reno
55D
“Pardon the Interruption” cable channel
ESPN
56D
Author Gerritsen who created Rizzoli & Isles
Tess
1D
“… is like ___ without sunshine”: 2 wds.
A Day
2D
Kudrow who played Phoebe on “Friends”
Lisa
3D
8 to 11 p.m., for TV programming in the eastern and western US: 2 wds.
Prime Time
4D
Word after “Bering” or “Black”
Sea
5D
What utensils go to the left and right of
Plate
6D
Allows
Lets
7D
“___ is just a number”
Age
8D
“Don’t Speak” band whose lead singer is Gwen Stefani: 2 wds.
No Doubt
9D
Beyoncé hit with the line “I got my angel now”
Halo
10D
World Wide Web address: Abbr.
URL
11D
Mop & ___ (floor cleaner brand)
Glo
12D
Billion-year span
Eon
17D
Climactic moment of many a rom-com
Kiss
18D
___ 500 (annual Brickyard event, for short)
Indy
23D
More or ___ (approximately)
Less
24D
Last name of two presidents
Bush
25D
Speech delivered solo onstage
Monologue
26D
“___ it a pity!”
Isnt
27D
Something you can reserve at some movie theaters
Seat
28D
Elisabeth of “The Handmaid’s Tale”
Moss
29D
Brigham Young University’s state
Utah
30D
Small animals similar to mice
Rats
31D
The Tour de France, for example
Race
33D
Conjunctivitis, by a more colorful name
Pink Eye
36D
___ over matter
Mind
37D
Truck driver’s rig
Semi
40D
Bird that says “nevermore” in a Poe poem
Raven
41D
Jafar’s parrot pal, in “Aladdin”
Iago
42D
Assistance
Help
44D
___ on a log (celery with peanut butter and raisins)
Ants
45D
___ up (come clean)
Fess
46D
Lifesaving maneuver: Abbr.
CPR
47D
Homophone of “ail”
Ale
48D
Move quickly
Run
49D
“Leaving ___ Vegas” (Nicolas Cage movie)
Las
50D
“Do ___ disturb”
Not