Valentine's Day 2026 <3
Across
- 1. depending on your audience, can be a term of endearment or confrontation
- 6. industry standard used for modeling, animation, simulation, and rendering in film, TV, & gaming
- 7. Italian port city, best enjoyed with a chocolate fruit cup
- 9. location where Stephen King's "The Shining" was filmed
- 11. flourless European cake, often topped with powdered sugar
- 13. poker-themed deck building game
- 14. coffee often served in a diner mug
- 15. valley known for its orchestral soundtrack & RPG elements
- 16. holds a collection of ancient statues and busts from the Medici family, including ancient Roman copies of lost Greek sculptures
- 17. made with sustainable materials & known for its Swedish design
- 18. DAW controller with four octaves of semi-weighted, waterfall-style keys, eight continuous encoders, nine faders and 16 velocity sensitive pads for playing drums and instruments and launching clips
- 20. the world's longest spans 5,772 miles & the world's fastest reaches 286 mph
- 22. derived from natural earth pigments containing iron oxide and manganese oxide, with its name originating from a region of Italy
- 23. animated Western directed by Gore Verbinski and voiced by Johnny Depp, winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
- 24. pioneering CGI character created by Weta Digital
- 28. renowned filmmaker, recognized for his highly stylized, symmetrical, and detailed cinematic aesthetic
- 30. who can say where the road goes?
- 32. marine life who build extensive tunnel systems for shelter
- 33. space marines of the autocratic Galactic Empire, also a great pet name
- 34. found in northern boreal forests & subalpine forests across Canada, Alaska,& parts of the northern US where there are abundant snowshoe hares
Down
- 2. the only recurring character that shows up as an NPC in every entry of the Fallout series
- 3. mom's recipe is the best
- 4. be mine, xoxo, kiss me!
- 5. dark fantasy manga series where the protagonist fights curses born from negative human emotions
- 8. fifth-largest continent, found by traveling through Drake's Passage
- 10. known for his use of chiaroscuro in Biblical & mythological scenes, self-portraits, & historical paintings
- 12. the winner of this will have the lowest score after 6 rounds
- 19. home to over 17,000 animals & the world's largest indoor desert
- 21. contestants of this TV series win $500k by being the last person standing, without tapping out
- 22. Livraria Bertrand, located in Portugal, is the oldest operating one in the world
- 25. hans zimmer's cornfield chase heavily features this
- 26. located in the Sonoran Desert with 350+ days of sunshine
- 27. works at her late father's hat shop
- 29. to grandmother's house we go
- 31. forms when air is cooled to its dew point