SCARY MOVIES

ACROSS

1. Awestruck

5. Paid player

8. Precedes pedia

12. Oxen connector

13. Sonic sound

14. ____ Dondarrion, “Game of Thrones” Lord of Blackhaven

15. Bibliographical abbr. (2 words)

16. *2025 Pete Davidson horror flick, “The ____”

17. Wear away

18. *Movie director of “Knock at the Cabin” fame

20. Manage without help

21. Subway coin

22. Boar’s mate

23. *Jordan Peele’s directorial debut (2017, 2 words)

26. Richard Gere in 1980 movie, pl.

30. Bit of binary code

31. A way to steal gas

34. *”It’s ____” (1974)

35. Estrogen producer

37. Have a bug

38. Glue on, e.g.

39. Comme ci, comme Áa

40. Nice to look at

42. Opposite of WSW

43. Opposite of #40 Across

45. Cordwood units

47. The night before

48. Warm down-slope wind

50. Blood component

52. *Trip to Sweden gone wrong (2019)

56. Like certain radiant energy

57. Pakistani tongue

58. “Ill at ____”

59. Not together

60. Ooze

61. Bulgarian, e.g.

62. Like certain grape beverage

63. Get it wrong

64. Shakira’s don’t lie?

DOWN

1. Roll call answers

2. Visi____ or Ostro____

3. Thumbs-up

4. Italian frozen dessert

5. Southern England’s coastal town

6. *____ Polanski, director of “Rosemary’s Baby”

7. *The story of Damien Thorn, with The (1976)

8. *Americans’ attacker in London (1981)

9. Pump it!

10. Pirate Captain ____

11. Frozen H2O

13. Devotional worship, in Hinduism

14. Haze over

19. Timid

22. Envy, biblically-speaking

23. Duck follower

24. Diplomat on a mission

25. Badger or bug

26. Happy Gilmore’s game

27. Forever prisoner

28. Sheep-like

29. Movie “Battle of the ____”

32. Pay as you earn, acr.

33. Step on it

36. *Mia Farrow in Roman Polanski’s movie (1967)

38. Poetic although

40. Before of yore

41. Depletes (2 words)

44. Manifest

46. Catch in a net

48. Firearm shooter

49. More eccentric

50. Shoshonean people

51. Panache

52. Dante’s Beatrice, e.g.

53. Mauritania’s Eastern neighbor

54. Hurry up, acronym

55. RPMs

56. *James Wan’s directorial debut (2004)