6/7/21
Movie Monday
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1A
Prepare potatoes to serve with gravy
Mash
5A
Visibility-reducing weather phenomenon
Fog
8A
“___ my advice …”
Take
12A
Run ___ from home
Away
13A
“Call Me Maybe” singer Carly ___ Jepsen
Rae
14A
Squalid place to live
Hovel
15A
Chinese revolutionary ___ Xiaoping
Deng
16A
“I’ve discovered the secret!”
Aha
17A
Approves
Okays
18A
“Coming 2 America” actor who played Doctor Dolittle in 1998 and 2001 films: 2 wds.
Eddie Murphy
21A
She started life in the Garden of Eden
Eve
22A
Fruit of the ___ (underwear brand)
Loom
24A
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” hero Ichabod
Crane
27A
Judge Lance of the O.J. Simpson trial
Ito
29A
Ending for “lime” or “Gator”
Ade
32A
“Iron Man” actor who played Doctor Dolittle in a 2020 film: 3 wds.
Robert Downey Jr.
36A
Bird mascot of Wise potato chips
Owl
37A
Overwhelming sadness
Woe
38A
Build up over time, as wealth
Amass
39A
Retro cartoon bear featured in the upcoming HBO Max series, “Jellystone!”
Yogi
42A
“That’s just the ___ of the iceberg”
Tip
43A
“My Fair Lady” actor who played Doctor Dolittle in a 1967 film: 2 wds.
Rex Harrison
49A
Beyond the shadow of a ___
Doubt
52A
Ship that might abduct an earthling: Abbr.
UFO
53A
___ the rails (went by train)
Rode
54A
“Cats” actor Elba
Idris
One Clue Crossword
WordBrain
WordBubbles!
Word Whizzle
Words Crush
55A
Male sibling, for short
Bro
56A
Pennsylvania city that’s due north of Pittsburgh
Erie
57A
Classy chap
Gent
58A
Soak (up)
Sop
59A
Bit in a bird feeder
Seed
1D
Created
Made
2D
Bowled over
Awed
3D
___ trap (hazard on a golf course)
Sand
4D
Daily personal cleanliness
Hygiene
5D
___ of reference (context)
Frame
6D
Hawaiian island where Barack Obama was born
Oahu
7D
Kick into high ___ (go to maximum speed)
Gear
8D
Capital of Japan
Tokyo
9D
“13th” documentarian DuVernay
Ava
10D
Word that can follow “skeleton” or “shift”
Key
11D
South African golf legend Ernie
Els
14D
Sound of laughter from Santa Claus: 2 wds.
Hoho
19D
Happily ___ after
Ever
20D
Farmer’s machine to churn the soil before planting
Plow
23D
“Stranger Things” actress Hawke
Maya
24D
___-Magnon (early human)
Cro
25D
What members of a crew team do
Row
26D
With competence
Ably
27D
“___ not like green eggs and ham”: 2 wds.
I Do
28D
One of five “piggies” on a toddler’s foot
Toe
30D
Radio show hosts who play music: Abbr.
DJs
31D
Hectic areas in hospitals: Abbr.
Ers
33D
Mars candy bar brand that’s packaged in pairs
Twix
34D
Hair-removal brand since 1940
Nair
35D
Vast territories such as the Ottoman and the Holy Roman
Empires
40D
Planet’s trajectory around the sun
Orbit
41D
Obtains
Gets
42D
Group of Boy Scouts
Troop
44D
Airports that have lots of daily flights
Hubs
45D
Full, natural hairstyle
Afro
46D
Painful to the touch
Sore
47D
Slobbery dog of the comics
Odie
48D
Requirement
Need
49D
Use a backhoe
Dig
50D
Praiseful poem by John Keats, for example
Ode
51D
Fancy vase, like the Grecian one in a famous 50-Down
Urn