Brooklyn's Top 50

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Across
  1. 1. Quentin Tarantino's 8th film
  2. 4. Ease on down the road
  3. 6. One of Ntozake Shange's most famous written works
  4. 7. (I love you) by Michael Franti and Spearhead
  5. 9. A hit single off of Beyonce's album B'Day, that means "go"
  6. 10. A New York Times Bestselling book and Academy Award nominated movie starring an abducted Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay
  7. 13. Part of your world
  8. 17. What rises in the morning and sets every night; a book titled “A Thousand Splendid ____” by Khaled Hosseini
  9. 20. One of Brooklyn's wedding songs by Anthony Hamilton
  10. 24. The “________ Typing School for Men”, set among the second largest desert in Africa
  11. 25. The Grand ________ Hotel
  12. 26. How many flags does this amusement park have?
  13. 27. Another word for “Earth”; a now banned book written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, titled “Between the _____ and Me”
  14. 29. You have to go over the river and through the woods to get there
  15. 30. An Atlanta anthem
  16. 33. “Balloon ___” is an oversized, metallic installment of man’s-best-friend, at the Broad Museum by Jeff Koons
  17. 34. The second largest park in Brooklyn, New York
  18. 35. It’s another day of sun here in La La ____
  19. 37. Lauryn Hill wants everyone to know that love can make everything seem irrelevant
  20. 39. Brooklyn's favorite meal here is the Paul Bunyan
  21. 40. Strength, _______, and Wisdom
  22. 41. Non _________ art is in relation to abstract art
  23. 43. Jean Michael Basquiat captures two men in preparation for their music gig; one plays the trumpet, the other sax
  24. 45. A painting commissioned by Ernie Barnes that features Marvin Gaye in his signature skull cap
  25. 46. Craig and Day-Day owe Big Worm some money
  26. 49. A movie about Sarah, Becky, and Miss Minchin
Down
  1. 2. Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps go double or nothing
  2. 3. McLovin
  3. 5. A fantastic book by Delia Owens and a terrible movie by Olivia Newman
  4. 8. The first book of Huntley Fitzpatrick's 'Stony Bay' series
  5. 11. ______ House; a restaurant chain in the South, known for their breakfast and tomfoolery
  6. 12. “There Wasn’t No ______ Gates” is a frankly honest piece of art that lets audiences know that after death, the promise of Heaven is merely an idea
  7. 13. Featured on the cover of Marvin Gaye's "I Want You"
  8. 14. Means “cactus pads diced and cut into little pieces”
  9. 15. “Day ________ and I’m thinking of you”
  10. 16. "You're teasing me. You know what I want, and I got what you need"
  11. 18. “Training School for _____ Girls” is a collection of stories about black womanhood and girlhood
  12. 19. Ari Lennox once sung, “there’s a magic in your eyes”
  13. 21. Jill Scott asked “Is it ___ ____ you love me, baby?”
  14. 22. "You wanna talk about motherrrrs."
  15. 23. This painting by Kerry James Marshall , which gives us a sneak peak into a woman’s apartment while she’s changing, has no title
  16. 28. Talking at full volume is not allowed here
  17. 31. The best and biggest “black girl Sephora” of Kennesaw
  18. 32. Meaning “little entryway”
  19. 33. A coastal city located in northwest Florida and named 'The World's Luckiest Fishing Village'
  20. 36. A place where you can win a goldfish, ride a ferris wheel, and eat cotton candy
  21. 38. A book that navigates and examines every brown girls’ many stages of life
  22. 42. The title of a work of art by Ellen Gallagher, and the name of a Murray’s Pomade in a yellow tin
  23. 44. NoName raps about the truth and difficulties of life after opportunity knocks on her door
  24. 47. "Hard Times Require _______ Dancing", by Alice Walker
  25. 48. “Girl in ____ Dress”; A Laura Wheeler Waring painting of a young woman of the Jazz Age, as beautiful as a rose