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LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "T" |
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DAMN, I'VE GOT GREAT PLUMAGE |
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Commodus did fancy himself one of these, as seen in the Russell Crowe film, but didn't really die in the arena |
Gladiator
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Reddish color in the name of the tanager seen here |
Scarlet
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When the Musee D'Orsay opened in 1986, some of its oldest works came from this museum established in 1793 |
The Louvre
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Benjamin Hoff brought us "The Te of Piglet" & "The Tao of" this character |
Pooh
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He made Shakespeare fans of many young women when he played Romeo on film in 1996 |
Leonardo DiCaprio
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This Greek philosopher recognized 4 types of cause: material, efficient, formal & final |
Aristotle
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Mark Twain's Becky (8) |
Thatcher
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2-word name for the bird seen here, or, for a brand of bourbon |
Wild Turkey
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This Spanish museum is home to Pedro Pablo Rubens' version of St. George & the Dragon |
The Prado
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Tao's tenet of wuwei is to "do" this, something Seinfeld could handle |
Nothing
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In 1935 onstage in London, he alternated with John Gielgud as Romeo & Mercutio |
Sir Laurence Olivier
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This woman's mother, Herodias, hated John the Baptist for condemning her marriage |
(V: Who was Helen?)
Salome
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First name of a Fielding foundling (3) |
Tom (Jones)
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"Great" blue bird seen here |
(T: What is an egret?)
Heron
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It claims on its website to have "The Largest Collection of Ancient Egyptian Material Outside Cairo" |
The British Museum
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Peter Frampton could have sung "Show Me Tao", as it means this |
The way
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In a 1966 Royal Ballet version, he was Romeo to longtime partner Margot Fonteyn's Juliet |
Rudolf Nureyev
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In Rome's festival of Lupercus, god of this quality, women were hit with goatskins to transmit it to them |
(V: What is pain?)
Fertility
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Shakespeare's frisky fairy queen (7) |
Titania
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This adjective in the name of the owl seen here also applies to its Arctic home |
Snowy
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Original Aboriginal art has been shown in the National Gallery of Australia in this city |
(V: What is Sydney?)
Canberra
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Tao began in China as a reaction to the ideas of this philosophy |
Confucianism
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Harry Hilliard was Romeo in a 1916 silent film & this vamp was his Juliet |
Theda Bara
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For 400 years China was ruled by this 3-letter dynasty that shares its name with a river |
Han
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Melville's "peep at Polynesian life" (5) |
"Typee"
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The Carolina type, seen here, is one of the spiffier species of this small bird |
(V: What is a hummingbird?)
Wren
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His urban estate at 900 East Ave. in Rochester, N.Y. is a museum of photography & film |
George Eastman
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In addition to influencing Taoism, Chuang-Tzu helped shape this branch of Buddhism |
Zen
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For his classic 1968 film, this Italian director cast Leonard Whiting as Romeo |
(G: [no response])
Franco Zeffirelli
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