The Challenge is on!
Ahead of the big event next Sunday in Hollywood, below is my Oscar Best Pictures crossword to whet your appetite. All the answers are Best Picture winners through the ages.
It’s not as clever as to allow you to fill it in online…. so you are best to right-click on the picture below, download to your laptop, print off the grid and complete it on paper (with a pen… do you remember how to do that?)
Now you can obviously look up the answers by googling the list of winners. But how many can YOU get right WITHOUT doing any internet or other lookup searches? Post your number of correct answers in the comments box to put your name into my “leader board”. And no cheating now! (As you can see, if you want to do it as a collective family affair, feel free… it’s just for fun).
Current Leader Board:
Jack Allen -35
Jenn Jones – 35
Shaw Family – 35
Bronwyn Mann – 29
Sue Mann – 27
George Mann – 26.
ACROSS
3 – Not heard of this one with Albert Finney and Susannah York? It’s not unusual! (1963) (3,5)
7 – “Come on Dover, move you’re bleedin’ a**e!” (1964) (2,4,4)
15 – The day before Christmas; the day before New Year: nothing else matters! (1950) (3,5,3)
16 – “Revenge is a dish best served cold” (1972) (3,9)
18 – 246 toothpicks…. less the four in the box! (1987) (4,3)
20 – Female star of 37 Down and male star of 47 Across: they had a farm there you know. (1985) (3,2,5)
21 – They should have been wearing full metal jackets. Oliver Stone’s anti-war epic. (1986) (7)
28 – “They call me Mr Tibbs!” (1967) (2,3,4,2,3,5)
30 – A ‘single-take’ masterpiece that divided audiences. (2014) (7)
33 – Spacey’s Lester Burnham with an unhealthy interest in Mena Suvari’s Angela Hayes. (1999) (8,6)
36 – Where it all started – curiously long before Paul McCartney or his band were born. (1928) (5)
38 – Tanks for the memory? He certainly had a ‘Lust for Glory’! (1970) (6)
39 – He’s a bloke in spring; a chap in summer; a dude in autumn; and a male in winter! (1966) (1,3,3,3,7)
43 – A memorable run along a wintry beach. (1981) (8,2,4)
44 – 2018 saw the 8th film in the series… but this was the original that’s ‘Gonna Fly Now’. (1976) (5)
45 – Journalistic super-troopers! (2015) (9)
46 – “Oh Well… La-di-da, La-di-da”. (1977) (5,4)
47 – Newman and Redford getting one over on Shaw. (1973) (3,5)
DOWN
1 – The Oscar announcement was total lune-acy! (2016) (9)
2 – Surviving in the shadow of de winter on the road to Manderley? (1940) (7)
4 – RKO Land Rush epic, a long time before “Far and Away” (1931) (8)
5 – Eastwood’s character just won’t take “sorry” for an answer! (1992) (10)
6 – “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get” (1994) (7,4)
8 – A windy city with “All that Jazz” (2002) (7)
9 – The woad to “FREEDOM!” (1995) (10)
10 – “Are you not entertained??” (2000) (9)
11 – Mozart’s middle name (1984) (7)
12 – Know this one? You might like to ask the audience…. or phone a friend. (2008) (7,11)
13 – Like this month’s Oscar hopeful “Green Book”, but in reverse: a quiet film about multi-racial chauffeuring. (1989) (7,4,5)
14 – It’s where William from “Broadcast News” and John from “Alien” kept their sport’s gear at school! (2009) (3,4,6)
17 – “An eye for an eye just ends up making the whole world blind.” (1982) (6)
19 – An intertwined story with an impressive ensemble cast: not a bang, and not a wallop! (2005) (5)
22 – Not Bambi’s favourite chap. (1978) (3,4,6)
23 – John Wayne at the witching hour? (1969) (8,6)
24 – “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.” (1939) (4.4.3.4)
25 – Those that are no longer with us. (2006) (3,8)
26 – Olivier is to be? (Or perhaps not!) (1948) (6)
27 – It might not be very #timesup, but thank heavens for them! (1958) (4)
29 – It surely depends on the contours of the container you pour it into? (2017) (3,5,2,5)
31 – “We’ll always have Paris.” (1943) (10)
32 – Maria, not Juliet. Tony not Romeo. (1961) (4,4,5)
34 – How do you solve a problem like 32 Down? (1965) (3,5,2,5)
35 – Brando (c.) – “I could’a been a contender” (1954) (2,3,10)
37 – Streep (c.) to Hoffman (c.) – “I want my son” (1979) (6,2.,6)
40 – A thousand pounds to stay at The Ritz, The Dorchester or The Savoy? (1932) (5,5)
41 – After 36 Across, only the second silent film to win the Best Film Oscar! (2011) (3,6)
42 – It WAS a big enough door and they COULD have lived happily ever after! (1997) (7)
46 – A fake sci-fi flick as a smokescreen for an audacious rescue. (2012) (4)
Submit your scope for leaderboard glory!
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Good job! Equal top at the moment.