Screenplay: Puzzles #287

CROSSWORD: START YOUR ENGINES!

By Greta Shope

ACROSS 1. X minus II 5. Surrounded by 10. Nadirs 14. Merit 15.  “_______ Virgin” (Madonna hit) 16.  Opera showstopper 17.  Manchester forward Diallo 18.  One manning a canoe, maybe 19.  Wing of an orphanage, or one who sleeps there 20.  Hotel chain founded in San Antonio 22. #10 24.  Former Cubs star Sammy 25.  One who rides the rails 26.  “Big Energy” rapper 28. Give in, on the schoolyard perhaps 32. Super 33. Canadian border town ____ Ste. Marie 34. Early email provider 35. Sticky 36. Rush 37. Nurses 38. Eur. nation bordering Germany and Switzerland 39. Tool you might take for a spin? 40. Indulgence 41. Meryl Streep showstopper, or the movie in which she sings it! 43. #55 44. Similar (to) 45. Bon ____ (good evening, in Grenoble) 46. Prince Eric’s love 48. Sat back 52. Coloured part of the  eye 53. Indigenous to the Caribbean 55. Part of a backsplash, maybe 56. 52-down synonym 57. Lo que viene después de verano 58. #31 59. Airline that might fly to Tel Aviv 60. Relating to newborns 61. Series that begins in March, or what 22, 43, 58-across and 5, 10, 36, 45, and 49 correspond to

DOWN 1. Venison 2. _____ Killer (true crime Netflix series) 3. See 23-down 4. Banking or Agrigulture, to name a few 5 #14 6. Sporty Mazda 7. Pods common in Cajun cooking 8. Formerly, as written on a save-the-date 9. Gothic carving that may give a chill 10. #30 11. Many a language exam 12 Sly 13. Blue 21. Any inkling 23. Border, as 3-Down does with Turkey and Jordan 25.  ______ Couture 26. Cry, in Córdoba 27. First-string 28. Alexander nickname 29. Stones used for a burial mound 30. Jennifer or Mario 31. Other 32. Uni. in MI 33. Delicate dress material 36. #44 37. ________ St. Louis, Lindbergh’s custom flyer 39. Baikal or Erie 40. Take to the seas 42. Brosnahan’s comedic superstar 43. “Neat!” 45. #12 (fmr.) 46. Disappearing sea 47. Latvian capital 48. Demonstration 49. #27, informally 50. Musk who was recently revealed as a father of 13 51. Narrow valley 52. Synonym of 56- across 54. ______ moment’s notic

SUDOKU

By Alex Le Sage

WORD SEARCH

By Iris Hubbard

AVATAR	HARRYPOTTER
AVENGERS	JAWS
BATMAN	MINIONS
CASTAWAY	SPIDERMAN
ET	STARWARS
FROZEN	TITANIC
GLADIATOR	TOPGUN

SPELLING BEE

By Julia Emery

Nice - 93  

Great - 148  

Amazing - 185

Genius - 259  

Perfect! - 369

ANAGRAMS: ACTORS' LAST NAMES

By Iris Hubbard

COPRAIID

SGWAHOINNT

YCREAR

CBLKOUL

SLWIIL

TALSENLO

LYONECO

AMERFEN

AHRWEBGL

ICONSONHL

EPRHNUB

ERABNGM

HAGSEERCGWRZNE

SIKNPHO

SUCREI

RODINE

CONNECTIONS

By Julia Emery

Star	Apostrophe	Rocky	Bolt
Juno	Seat	Comet	Hyphen
Aladdin	Jupiter	Ampersand	Moon
Pound	Asteroid	Conveyor	Bible