Molly

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Across
  1. 2. third most populous city in USA
  2. 4. us city whose name means 'the meadows' in spanish
  3. 9. what yeltsin said he was looking for when found drunk and naked outside White House
  4. 11. oldest continuously inhabited city in the world
  5. 12. roman general, relative of caesar, member of Rome's second triumvirate once portrayed by richard burton in film
  6. 13. author of 'the feminine mystique', the book that sparked second-wave feminism
  7. 19. youngest ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (at 17)
  8. 20. name of suffragette who was hit by the king's horse
  9. 26. third-longest river in the world
  10. 27. melbourne cup barrier number that did not produce a winning horse until 2021
  11. 29. only once has a horse from this country won the melbourne cup
  12. 32. 'physiognomy', in austen times
  13. 34. only country in world beginning with 'O'
  14. 35. the horse that won from barrier _ in 2021
  15. 39. afl/vfl player with record for most consecutive 3-vote brownlow games
  16. 41. only african country starting with 'D'
  17. 43. animal famously used by John Kirkpatrick to transport injured soliders during the landing at Anzac Cove
  18. 47. the only best picture winner directed by alfred hitchcock
  19. 48. man with most Best Actor wins
  20. 50. movie for which audrey hepburn won best actress
  21. 51. female pharaoh who disguised herself as a man
  22. 54. capital of Somalia
  23. 57. hottest planet
  24. 58. first country to host summer and winter olympics in same year
  25. 59. complete and utter _
  26. 60. member of imperial russian cavalry
  27. 62. cause of death of lenin, stalin, and churchill
  28. 63. neurological condition shared by albert einstein, cher, and steven spielberg
  29. 64. lawyer and radical leader of Jacobins in French revolution, ultimately executed
  30. 66. summer olympic sport originally named 'mintonette'
  31. 67. the first black person to ever win an academy award did so for acting in his old hollywood film
Down
  1. 1. 2nd-highest selling beer in world (after 'snow')
  2. 3. state in which MLK Jr was born
  3. 5. hoseless holidayer
  4. 6. highest-selling dvd of all time (film) (hint: searching for no one)
  5. 7. only afl player to captain his team to 7 straight prelim appearances
  6. 8. 'na' element
  7. 10. infamous, imprisoned writer who was transferred out of the bastille just 10 days before it was stormed during the revolution
  8. 14. only film character included on American Film Institute's 'top 50 heroes' AND 'top 50 villains' lists (you all love the actor)
  9. 15. lenin's real surname
  10. 16. coldest planet
  11. 17. first black woman to refuse to give up seat on bus, nine months before rosa parks
  12. 18. Best Actress winner in 2006, real name Ilyena Lydia Mironoff
  13. 21. country with highest alcohol consumption per capita
  14. 22. icy
  15. 23. 4-time best actor nominee who lost all four acting noms, but has won best director
  16. 24. oscar-nominated blonde actress whose daughter convicted of justifiable homicide for killing actress' husband
  17. 25. tomb carved into rock/stone
  18. 28. first australian woman to win a grammy (hint: lion)
  19. 30. uradibbu (unscramble - molly hates it!)
  20. 31. second of two countries to have only one melbourne cup winner
  21. 33. annoyed/frustrated, in austen times
  22. 36. second-highest selling album of all time, after 'thriller'
  23. 37. legendary writer sentenced to death - messenger sent word of sentence being changed to imprisonment as he was being led to the execution
  24. 38. horse with fastest melbourne cup run ever
  25. 40. first of two countries to have only one melbourne cup winner
  26. 42. 2005 Brownlow winner
  27. 44. first actor/actress to earn one million USD for a role
  28. 45. six-time oscar nominee who, with their most recent win, holds record for being oldest person to win a best actor/actress oscar
  29. 46. pixar film with tagline 'we scare because we care'
  30. 49. bishop's neighbour
  31. 52. Greek goddess of song and dance
  32. 53. excessively eager to please, used to describe mr collins in pride and prejudice
  33. 55. most eaten food in the world
  34. 56. third country to give all women the right to vote, after NZ and AUS
  35. 61. fred astaire's real surname / famous 19th-century battle with 20,000+ casualties
  36. 65. only european country with pink in its flag
  37. 68. animal from which name 'canary islands' is derived