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