Across
- 6. a short dramatic, musical, or other entertainment of light character, introduced between the acts of a drama or opera
- 9. an arena or structure for equestrian and other spectacles
- 12. a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary
- 15. the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work
Down
- 1. a manner of painting, drawing, sculpting, etc., in which forms derived from nature are distorted or exaggerated and colors are intensified for emotive or expressive purposes
- 2. the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech
- 3. based on or re-creating an actual event, era, life story, etc., that purports to be factually accurate and contains no fictional elements
- 4. theatrical entertainment consisting of a number of individual performances, acts, or mixed numbers, as by comedians, singers, dancers, acrobats, and magicians
- 5. the branch of physics that deals with sound and sound waves
- 7. a performer, performance, or musical number that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause
- 8. a musical or dramatic composition or production, as comic opera or musical comedy, marked by a loose structure, a frivolous theme, and elaborate costuming and staging
- 10. relating to a genre of Mexican dance music, characterized by trumpets, guitars, violins, and vocals, usually played by a small band of strolling musicians dressed in traditional costumes
- 11. a narrative dealing with a murder or a series of murders and the detection of the criminal; detective story
- 13. a small symphony orchestra that usually specializes in playing short, familiar classical works or salon music
- 14. the technique of photographing successive drawings or positions of puppets or models to create an illusion of movement when the movie is shown as a sequence