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