Hollywood Crossword for Adults

This hard crossword about Hollywood has 24 entries on a 15 by 15 grid, 11 across and 13 down.

Answers average 6.3 letters and the longest runs fourteen, clued as "Art of writing with light across thirty-five millimeter emulsion" (16 Across). It crosses six other answers, so getting it early opens up much of the grid.

  • 24 clues
  • 15 x 15 grid
  • Hard
  • Answers 3 to 14 letters

The three longest answers

  1. 16 Across (14)Art of writing with light across thirty-five millimeter emulsion
  2. 10 Down (11)Demolition bomb that lines theater lobbies around the city block
  3. 12 Down (10)Courier font manuscript describing lights, camera, and conversation

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Across

  1. 1. Carved gemstone displaying a celebrated director in Hitchcock's frames
  2. 4. Rotating machine part that secretly films the premier
  3. 7. Concentrate sharply through optical glass
  4. 8. Dramatic public tantrum confined to a single location
  5. 10. Obstructing views or plotting exact physical staging for actors
  6. 12. Subsequent chapter banking on past franchise returns
  7. 16. Art of writing with light across thirty-five millimeter emulsion
  8. 18. Artist's workspace that may be Universal or Paramount
  9. 19. Stage support that might be a fake revolver
  10. 20. Director claiming singular personal handwriting across celluloid
  11. 21. Power down the computer and scrap the old franchise continuity

Down

  1. 2. Large prefix yielding ultra-close perspectives on miniature details
  2. 3. Hurl an ensemble into their assigned roles
  3. 4. Billiard stick prompting an actor's line
  4. 5. Hinder growth through daring vehicular acrobatics
  5. 6. Class of artistic endeavor, from noir to slasher
  6. 9. Child's toy that rolls smooth tracks across the floor
  7. 10. Demolition bomb that lines theater lobbies around the city block
  8. 11. Quick swamp reeds reviewed raw by the director each evening
  9. 12. Courier font manuscript describing lights, camera, and conversation
  10. 13. Innocent, wholesome young woman typecast across romantic scripts
  11. 14. Exterior acreage where fake Western streets stand forever
  12. 15. Ticket kiosk whose weekend receipts dictate studio survival
  13. 17. Playful bully offering thirty seconds of enticing preview

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