Times-Echo Crossword Puzzle: May 28, 2026

Scorsese Pieces

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Across

1. Sound of a seal’s bark or something heard at Good Shepherd Humane Society.

7. Picture within a picture

15. Bainbridge (Australian pop singer with the hit “Mouth”)

16. Council’s meeting place

17. South American wild guinea pig

18. Act like a vulture

19. Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Cathy Moriarty

21. Gumbo ingredient

22. Commercial break spot

23. Signal again, as an actor

24. Served up a whopper

25. “Are we there ___?”

26. Jewish potato pancake, traditionally served at Hanukkah

27. Mark Cuban’s highdefinition television network

28. Belonging to Stuart Leslie Goddard (singer of 1982’s “Goody Two Shoes”

30. Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Sharon Stone

31. Early Peruvian

32. Ugandan ethnic group (hidden in WHITE SOX)

33. Not inclined to spend or give

36. Severe form of epileptic seizure

40. Metric unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms

41. Port city in Belarus, or a city in Brittany, France

42. Blvd.

43. Wings: Lat.

44. Without company; solitary

45. Shapiro and Onassis

46. Twentieth letter of the Hebrew alphabet

47. Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Ray Liotta

49. Metallic element with atomic number 23

51. To compose or write, as a poem

52. German-American sculptor known for using unconventional materials to create works exploring absurdity, chaos, and theconnection between life and art

53. Cheer enthusiastically for a team

54. Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson and Matt Damon

55. Variant spelling of a surname meaning “elder trees”

Down

1. First name of Nobel Prize-winning economist Sen

2. Laid new tarmac over an old road surface

3. Genus of frigatebirds

4. Competitor of Secret

5. French for “nothing”

6. Quality of being shockingly scandalous. From the Latin meaning “to burn”

7. Expression of strong disapproval, informally

8. Totally drawing a blank

9. Low-lying, marshy stretch of land

10. Ltr. holder

11. One’s native land, especially Ireland

12. Skimpy one-piece swimsuit for men, famously worn by Borat

13. Soul singer known for “Let’s Stay Together”

14. Formally admit guilt to a particular charge

20. Genus of freshwater fish including the Siamese fighting fish

26. Jessica ___, actress starred in Scorsese’s 1991’s Cape Fear

27. “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it _ been written yet, then you must write it.” - Toni Morrison

29. Famous waterfall in Minneapolis, Minnesota

30. Agreed halt to armed hostilities

32. Prevailing direction or fashion

33. Famished

34. “The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much _ _ it” - Ernest Hemingway

35. Done very quickly and easily

36. Well-___ (neat and tidy)

37. Variety of hardened marl, which is a calcium-rich mudstone or rock

38. Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett and Kate Beckinsale

39. Reduces in degree or intensity

41. Loose-fitting upper garment

44. To take in and feed livestock for payment

45. Organic compound formed in a condensation reaction

48. In organic chemistry, these are a type of functional group derived from vinyl alcohol

50. “___ Freischütz” (Weber opera considered the archetype of German Romantic opera)

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