Crossword No. 696: Striking Cinematography
ACROSS
1 Hollywood’s Writers Guild went on strike last week; this 1992 Jack Nicholson movie features a Teamsters’ strike organized by the title character
6 “Stop!” in pirate-speak 11 “___ dia!” (Portuguese greeting)
14 Consumed, in the Bible
15 Fourth letter
16 In the style of
17 With 26-Across: 1941’s Best Picture (famously winning over Citizen Kane), which centers on a miners’ strike in Wales
19 “Take a chair, please!”
20 Guy’s counterpart
21 Rowboat mover
22 Donate
23 “On one condition...”
26 See 17-Across
28 “Greetings! I am a cow”
29 No-troops area, for short
31 Airport info
32 Vegas resort and casino
34 50+ org.
37 Perfect
41 Oscar-winning 1976 documentary about striking miners in Kentucky
44 Make ___ with the devil
45 Awesome person
46 Like most marathoners
47 One of 24 on most humans
49 Settings for many TV dramas
51 “The Tell-Tale Heart” author’s inits.
52 1979 drama in which Sally Field’s character organizes a strike in a North Carolina cotton mill
57 Laments the dead
59 Masterwork
60 Time-buying syllable
61 Helping hand
62 Trap spun from silk
63 Wittily named 2014 documentary chronicling the most recent Writers Guild strike, in 2007–08
68 Newsman Melber
69 Less friendly
70 Stephen King–esque
71 Shoot the breeze
72 Impudence
73 Did it wrong
DOWN
1 “That’s a good one!”
2 Prefix meaning “of the ear”
3 Just a handful
4 Like Holmesian London, often
5 Full of anxiety
6 Suffix with drinks
7 Copperhead’s poison
8 Eternally, in poetry
9 ___ for attention (neglect)
10 College exam graders, often
11 Herb in pizza sauce
12 Antipasto piece
13 “My fellow pirate”
18 Danny or Jenna
22 Knight on “Midnight Train to Georgia”
23 ___ Steaks
24 Trackers of Santa Claus
25 France’s longest river
27 Working or fighting, casually
30 Affable Braff
33 Audible warnings
35 Salmon eggs
36 Unadulterated
38 Swiss mathematician who popularized usage of pi
39 Part of AAPI
40 Bedstand items
42 Actress Shawkat of Arrested Development
43 Average
48 Feet-first position in utero
50 “Evidently that’s the case”
52 “Inconceivable!”
53 Sydney ___ House
54 Cube-maker Erno
55 Former California governor, casually
56 Host of the show
58 Milk container of a sort
63 Phone snap
64 Aggravate
65 Bobby in rinks
66 Golfer Michelle who won 2014 U.S. Women’s Open
67 Beatty in Superman