Puzzling Out the Oscars

This puzzle is dedicated to this year’s Academy Awards nominees. If you haven’t seen all the films, see the complete Oscar ballot on Page 4. Whatever you do, DO NOT look on Page 89 for the answers. That would be sneaky and illegal.

Across

1. Breakdancer.

5. Miss Rheingold Beer of 1948.

Bonus clue: “Kiss of the Spider Woman” sounds like the title of one of her early movies. 10. What the academy directors branch said to Steven.

11. Wrinkled cookie monster?

13. The telecast usually runs too long by one of these.

14. If you saw Mickey Mouse running around your house, you’d jump on a chair and yell . . .

15. The Spago overflow crowd Monday night will be across the street at this Dome.

16. None of the winners ever do this

when told to keep it short.

17. “----- Nous,” a nominee in 1983.

18. Meryl never returned here and everybody cried.

19. Bill Hurt’s step-grandfather.

Bonus clue: A woman who married this man wrote “The Women.” 20. The 2,000-year-old wife. Initials.

21. The outs aren’t.

23. Tricky clue: Elizabeth Taylor won her second Oscar when she lost control of her ----- metabolic rate and tackled the role of Martha, who was afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Bonus aural clue: May remind you of Rathbone. 24. A flower child of Hollywood, but no favorite of Oscar.

Bonus clue: She’s played both a daisy and a rose of a different color. Bonus visual clue: And yet one more bonus clue: Chuck Norris’ movie in the nominations. 26. What Bob and Meryl did on a sultry African plain.

29. Not acclaimed for her acting. If she ever wins an Oscar, Calendar will stop the presses.

30. Avery.

31. The person who can keep the Oscar show to under three hours will be a ----. (Good luck, Stanley!)

32. He stayed in bed and sent his daughter to pick up his golden statuette. Initials.

34. Old MacDonald, just getting started.

35. Angst from the East.

37. Every year he and his wife

lure stars away from

the Oscar show.

39. This studio hasn’t had a Best Picture since “Ben-Hur,” 1959.

Bonus clue: It has a yellow brick and a rocky road. 40. Historical question: 1971 Best Actress nominee Janet Suzman was married in a movie to a ----.

41. Kate and Barbra, 1968.

43. Clark Gable wouldn’t give one. Sounds like.

Bonus clue: Having grown accustomed to her f ace, ‘enry ‘iggins gave five. Sounds like. 44. A wizard from Oz.

45. No Hope.

47. Dorothy Michaels’ agent in “Tootsie.” Initials.

48. Historical question: Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Richard Attenborough and John Giel- gud. Sidney Poitier was also one.

49. One of the Jakes.

50. The Master’s 28th film.

53. Greg Bautzer, Tom Pollock, Frank Rothman and Paul and Ken Ziffren have them.

Bonus clue: Actually, every entertainment attorney has one. A.k.a.: J.D. 54. A woman of independent beans.

55. Many of 10 Across.

56. Whoopi’s choice.

Down

1. Jack’s term of endearment.

2. John Book used it to solve the murder.

3. Heaven knows what she’ll wear tomorrow night.

(But we bet Bob Mackie knows!)

4. Meryl told Klaus to take one.

5. Bill Hurt in “Body Heat,”

but hardly in “Spider Woman.”

6. This city’s song lost an Oscar to “Chim Chim Cher-ee.”

7. Tribute question: One of Simone Signoret’s

greatest roles.

8. These people, this year--Norma Aleandro, Ron Howard, Cher, Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Turner, Robert Redford, Raul Julia, Sally Field, Jane Fonda. . . .

9. A free question.

12. He took his coffee without commitment.

Bonus visual clues (sounds like): 14. 5 p.m. Oscar night.

16. Gatsby lived here. Initials.

19. The witness.

20. They’ve got the same initials: She was awfully crabby to Gene Hackman; she was anything but crabby to Gene Hackman.

22. She’s famous for hers. See 3 Down.

23. Irrelevant question: Turhan.

25. You see him when the stars come out.

27. The actress finally said to her date, “Well, enough talk about me; what do you think about --?”

28. For them, Charley Partanna killed the woman he loved.

29. The presses are still rolling.

31. Army will give lots of these to the stars as they arrive at the Music Center.

Bonus clue: Not hers. 32. Monday night’s winners will be this on Tuesday.

33. Is there an Oscar in his future?

Bonus visual clue: 34. How to be human.

35. Who are the world?

36. “Rambo” and “Commando” had lots of these.

38. For each letter:

--A night at the -----. Sounds like. The fourth letter of this nominee’s name.

--”Spider Woman’s” director. The sixth letter of the last name.

--It’s the Best Song nominee from “Back to the Future.” The fourth letter of the first word.

--John Huston won an Oscar for his screenplay, a tale about avarice. And he won for directing it, too. The second letter of the first word of the title.

--He used to be T.H.E. CAT. The first letter of his nickname.

39. Got thee to a nunnery.

41. In the 1982 telecast, Bette Midler’s jokes gave new meaning to this word.

42. Publicists claim that they hate controversy--but they love getting the ---.

44. Geraldine gets to Bountiful because hers is iron.

45. Oo-la.

46. He took off the gloves, then got cold feet.

48. High body count, no nomination.

49. He lost his fingers at the tracks.

51. Irrelevant question: The suffix used to designate an enzyme.

52. The publisher of last year’s best pic movie tie-in.

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