THE MOTHER OF ALL CROSSWORDS
Just in time for Mother’s Day, May 10, we’re publishing this special crossword puzzle that celebrates all things mom. Sixty of the clues in this puzzle focus on mother-related trivia and famous moms, ranging from Madonna to Marie Curie. And, with people spending more time at home these days due to the pandemic, the puzzle is an ideal way to pass a few hours. Enjoy! Watch for the solution to the puzzle on C5.
ACROSS
1. Debbie Reynolds was mom to this
Star Wars actress (6,6)
7. She’s the mom of Bart, Lisa & Maggie (5,7)
15. She won her 23rd tennis grand slam while pregnant (6)
18. Red-headed comic actress who gave birth the same day her TV character did (7,4)
22. Gertrude was mother of this Shakespearean character (6) 24. Prescription abbr. for ‘once daily’ (2) 25. Symbol for the chemical element neodymium (2)
27. The currency of Nigeria (5)
28. Greek salad ingredient (4) 30. Audiovisual, abbr. (2)
31. Like mother like ________ (8) 35. A pronoun relating to oneself (2) 36. A mom will change 7,300 of these, by baby’s 2nd birthday (7) 38. Big-ticket ____ (4) 39. Mom and ___ shop (3) 41. Laura ____ calls Diane Ladd mom (4)
43. Tidal disruption event, abbr. (3)
44. ______ Ross was the mom on Happy Days (6)
46. Darjeeling or oolong (3) 48. An elevated railroad (2) 51. Disney-owned TV network (3) 53. Operating system, abbr. (2)
54. Goldman Sachs stock exchange symbol (2)
55. Hole-making tool (3)
56. She was mom to Prince William & Harry (5) 57. Moms (7) 60. Informal for thank you (2) 61. Famed scientist Marie _____ was a widow & single mom (5)
63. Weep (3)
64. Lady Tremaine is this Disney character’s stepmother (10)
66. Opposite of stop (2)
67. ____ Pitt’s mom was a school counsellor (4) 69. Sean Lennon’s mom (3) 70. A sly mammal (3) 71. Senior, abbr. (2) 72. Roman numeral for two (2) 73. Kardashian matriarch (4)
78. Ma ______ was mother to a gang of criminals (6)
81. Short form of Edward or Edgar (2) 83. A type of web address (2)
84. Fink (3)
86. Norman _____ was fixated on his mother in Psycho (5) 87. Hippie’s house (3) 89. Large primate (3) 91. _____ Andrews became a stepmom in Sound of Music
(5)
92. Daddy sang bass, Mama sang ___ (5)
93. This ex-Fly Girl’s mom won big on slots (3)
95. _____ Field played Forrest Gump’s mother (5)
97. Trash container (3)
98. Mom to Stella McCartney (5)
99. High card (3)
100. A popular degree (2)
101. Unified messaging, abbr. (2)
103. A type of electrical current (2)
107. Mother ______ won Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 (6)
109. Morticia is mom to _______ and Wednesday (7)
112. A mother ___ fusses too much (3) 114. A calf’s mother (3)
117. Real time response, abbr.
(3)
118. Hiring and firing dept. (2) 119. To keep quiet (3) 120. Ghost’s cry (3) 122. Famous 1871 painting: ________’s Mother (8)
126. Necessity is the mother of _________ (9)
128. Mrs. Bennet is mom in _____ and Prejudice (5) 129. Operation, abbr. (2) 130. Gym class (2) 131. Symbol for the chemical element neon (2)
133. A single number (3)
135. A popular word board game (8) 139. District attorney, abbr. (2)
141. Drink served with marshmallows (5) 144. Stage name of rapper Terrell Davis (4) 146. A nurse (2)
147. Group that helps alcoholics (2) 148. Egyptian queen who raised four kids (9) 150. Regarding, abbr. (2) 151. Swear on your mother’s ____ (4) 152. Singer adopted four kids from Malawi (7)
155. Semi-truck (3)
158. Artificial intelligence, abbr. (2) 159. An accounting professional, abbr. (2) 160. Chicago airport code (3)
161. Actress Paltrow’s actress mother (6) 162. Liza Minnelli’s mother (4,7)
164. Mom’s proverb: Careful, your face will ______ like that (6)
167. She played the mom on Partridge Family (7,5)
168. A force that controls the natural world (6,6)
DOWN
1. Observed the joint (5)
2. To send vehicles another way (7) 3. A ‘hotel’ in the country (3)
4. Fourth note of a major scale (2) 5. Chicken noodle, for one (4)
6. Julia Roberts played activist & single mom ____ Brockovich (4)
8. Actress Jessica ____ started baby product co. (4)
9. Brittany Lincicome kept going as a professional ______ while pregnant (6) 10. A continent south of N.A. (2)
11. ___ Farrow adopted 10 kids, 3 have passed away (3) 12. Figure out a mystery (5) 13. Short, informal letters (5) 14. Ex-boxer Laila ___ is a mom to 2 & stepmom to 3 (3) 16. Slight advantage (4) 17. Insect colony member (3) 19. Boy (3) 20. Historic period (3) 21. A French word for ‘the’ (2) 22. Frozen rain (4) 23. An atlas is full of these (4) 26. Illegally obtain money, with deception (7) 29. Touchdown, abbr. (2) 32. Helps (4) 33. Expressions of hesitation or reflection (4) 34. A mother’s male child (3) 35. How I ___ Your Mother (3) 37. Swindle (3) 39. Salk’s conquest (5) 40. Found in mollusk shells, mother of _____ (5)
42. A gaseous element used in bright signs (4)
43. One’s original language; mother ______ (6)
45. Interactive web response, abbr. (3) 46. Twitch (3) 47. ___ luck? (3) 49. Long term design strength, abbr.
(4)
50. ___ Royal
Highness (3)
51. American Sign
Language, abbr. (3)
52. Modern Family mom ______ Dunphy (6) 54. An archangel (7) 57. Combine (3) 58. Parsley, sage or thyme (4)
59. Backside (4)
61. Calcium sulfide’s formula (3) 62. Conclusion (3)
64. Dove’s sound (3)
65. To fabricate (3)
68. Shred (3)
74. Michelle Obama is mom to _____ & Sasha (5)
75. Kathy Hilton is mother of this socialite (5)
76. A stuffed bear (5)
77. Reality show _____ Moms had
8th season (5)
79. A stomach muscle (2)
80. Potassium chloride (3)
82. Direct access archive, abbr. (3) 84. Massage (3)
85. Metal used in food cans (3) 87. A legume (3)
88. Fawn’s mother (3)
90. Bathtub stopper (4)
93. Pickle container (3)
94. Get rid of (4)
95. Streep played a tormented mother in ______’s Choice (6) 96. A type of Russian rowboat (3) 100. Something you ring (4)
102. The mother in Little Women (6) 104. Pennies (5)
105. Jewel (3)
106. Solemn promise (3)
108. Make a mistake (3)
110. Big coffee holder (3)
111. Men’s skimpy swimwear (6) 112. Barbarian (3)
113. The point where two bones connect (5)
115. One of the five Ws (3)
116. Neither Miss nor Mrs. (2)
119. The engine of a car (5)
120. Sis’s sib (3)
121. Praiseful poem (3)
123. ____ facto (4)
124. _____ firma (5)
125. Outward flow (3)
127. Very nice, when texting (2) 130. Blueprint (4)
132. Negative answer (2)
134. The mob (5)
136. Small country between France & Spain (7)
137. A type of bathing suit top (7) 138. Latinfor‘andothers’;et__(2) 140. Attraction (6)
141. A type of blood test (3)
142. Tenor Enrico ______ was one of the 1st singers to be commercially recorded (6)
143. Sock pattern (6)
144. The central area of Venice & name of bridge (6)
145. Law enforcement, abbr. (2)
148. Things to crack (5)
149. Listlessness (5)
152. Pa’s better half (2)
153. Metal found in rocks (3)
154. Brit superstar singer became a mom in 2012 (5)
156. Passport or birth certificate (2) 157. Mother’s Day month (3)
159. A format for storing music, now obsolete (2)
163. To the highest degree (3)
165. Belonging to me (2)
166. Urgent care dept. at hospital (2)