Crossword No. 737:
She’s Two-for-Two
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1 Place to roost 6 Total when you roll “snake eyes” 9 Card game that sounds like it’s shooing you 13 ___ Holmes (2020 mystery with Millie Bobby Brown in the title role) 14 Sought office 15 Symbol of Georgia 16 On March 10, she became the fifth actress to win both of her Best Actress Oscar nominations—for La La Land (2016) and Poor Things (2023) 18 Good sign for a judge? 19 Element with the symbol Pb 20 Tennis great Gibson 22 It’s good in Montreal 23 ID in a xxx-xx-xxxx pattern 24 This two-for-two winner won for Boys Don’t Cry (1999) and Million Dollar Baby (2004) 26 Start to cry? 28 Blunt and Ratajkowski, e.g. 29 Word with group or background 33 Hoover or Grand Coulee 34 She won her only Best Actress races, for very famous roles: Scarlett O’Hara (1939) and Blanche DuBois (1951) 37 Newspaper, if you don’t like its content 38 Brutal 39 Silhouette saxman 42 Spiritually significant object 45 This German-born actress was the first thespian to win two Oscars, back-to-back wins for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937) 49 “I’ll pass” 51 Part of FWIW 52 Sadat’s predecessor 53 The Taj Mahal’s city 54 Classic soft drink 56 She’s also two-for-two in the Best Actress category, winning for Norma Rae (1979) and Places in the Heart (1984) 58 “Able was I ___ saw Elba” (famed palindrome) 59 Collins or Hartman 60 Former Pennsylvania senator Specter 61 Leaky tire’s sound 62 Drinks slowly 63 House, boat, or IRA, e.g.
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1 Orange covers 2 Make trapped 3 Pax ___ (200 years of peace and prosperity) 4 Dressed (in) 5 Laughing syllables 6 Online attention-seeker 7 “I ___ New Drug” (1984 Huey Lewis hit) 8 60 mins. 9 6, in Venice 10 Mystical branch of Judaism 11 YOLO or EBITDA, e.g. 12 “Appreciate it!” 15 Suffix with ecto or neo 17 Martial art sometimes translated as “shadowboxing” 21 Get a visual on 24 Man-cave item 25 Thingamajig 27 Wields power 30 Atari 2600 rival 31 ___ jiffy (quickly) 32 155, one way 34 Disappears without a trace 35 Café 36 Aviation pioneer Sikorsky 37 AP competitor 39 Actors Kevin and Richard, for two 40 Hankering 41 Understands fully 43 The Communist Manifesto co-author 44 Matlin who’s one-forone in the Best Actress category 46 Alternative to Kirin or Sapporo 47 Long Island city 48 Carter and Sutton, for two 50 “I ___ noticed” 53 Puts on TV 55 ___ for Innocent (ninth of Sue Grafton’s Alphabet series of novels) 57 Plane folks?