Mostly 1961
Across
- 2. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, in 1961, it tolled for this classic American author.
- 4. Popular 1961 dance craze.
- 5. Most popular toy of the year, introduced as a male companion.
- 8. You played basketball for this Saint.
- 12. This woman’s live performance at Carnegie Hall won Best Solo Vocal Performance, beating Billie Holiday for her performance there that year. Hint(?): She married Liberace eight years later
- 13. TV family with Herman, Lily, and Grandpa.
- 14. Behind Wagon Train, this was NBC’s second-most popular Western of 1961, and featured the Cartwright family.
- 15. Rumor has it you were absolutely a fan of this handsome 1961 Male Vocalist of the Year.
- 16. Eisenhower, in the midst of a tense Cold War, closes this US Embassy in a neighboring small country.
- 18. Your Mom used to buy meat here (I think).
- 19. This candy, invented in 1961, was inspired by the oblong shape of its creator’s grandson’s head after birth.
Down
- 1. "Breakfast at _________," iconic 1961 film.
- 3. It won two Tony Awards in 1958 before making it to the big screen in 1961 and winning ten Academy Awards including Best Picture.
- 6. East Germany began building this massive structure.
- 7. The people downstairs gave you this nickname.
- 9. Your Mom gave my Dad this nickname. No one wonders why.
- 10. Author of 1961’s most novel Catch.
- 11. He was sworn in as the 35th President of the United States, delivering a famous "New Frontier" speech.
- 14. There was a lot of buzz over this popular woman’s hairstyle.
- 17. NASA started this program in 1961 with the goal of landing a man on the moon.