James Bond Movies & Lore #1 (Medium-Hard Difficulty)

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Across
  1. 2. Final Eon-produced Connery film before the reboot era
  2. 5. Narrative bridge film resolving Casino Royale’s emotional arc
  3. 9. Bond title released in direct competition with a rival 007 film
  4. 14. Craig-era finale framed as a modern Greek tragedy
  5. 15. Codename derived from a Royal Navy commander turned fictional spy
  6. 18. Bond film marking the franchise’s 40th anniversary
  7. 19. Actor whose Bond portrayal established the cinematic archetype
  8. 20. Bond film whose title is lifted directly from a 19th-century phrase
  9. 22. Bond debut featuring a Three Blind Mice motif
  10. 24. Craig-era film exploring legacy, identity, and maternal loss
  11. 25. Dalton debut emphasizing defection rather than megalomania
Down
  1. 1. Brosnan entry predicting weaponized information warfare
  2. 3. Bond film structured around a personal betrayal masquerading as geopolitics
  3. 4. Bond origin story emphasizing psychological cost over spectacle
  4. 6. Low-stakes espionage entry deliberately scaled back after Moonraker
  5. 7. Post-Soviet Bond film centered on a repurposed Cold War weapons platform
  6. 8. Roger Moore film that tests plausibility by escalating espionage beyond Earth
  7. 10. Shadow organization whose acronym is never officially expanded on screen
  8. 11. Bond film concluding with a staged volcanic launch site
  9. 12. Bond film abandoning the traditional villain lair structure
  10. 13. Film introducing the franchise’s most analyzed villain monologue
  11. 16. Film adapting Fleming’s novel most closely to its source text
  12. 17. Jamaica-born writer whose journalism informed Cold War realism
  13. 21. Bond adventure that set the standard for large-scale underwater cinematography
  14. 23. British intelligence service commonly misidentified as MI6