Vulture Saturday, 16 December 2023 Crossword Answers
Daily crossword answers for the The Nuclear Puzzle Saturday, 16 December 2023 by Malaika Handa. The Vulture Crosswords are very hard sometimes, with our help you will be able to finish the tricky definitions.
Below you will find all the answers for the The Nuclear Puzzle Saturday, 16 December 2023 divided to 2 sections, Across clues and Down Clues.
Did you find what you needed?
We hope you did!.
Across
| Number | Clues | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nickname for the nuclear physicist with perhaps the most chiseled cheekbones of all time | OPPIE |
| 6 | Adam Moysey, for Universal Pictures | CFO |
| 9 | Alabama city home to famous Civil Rights marches | SELMA |
| 10 | Interest grp. for the elderly | AARP |
| 11 | Grain and wheat commonly, in Germany | CROPS |
| 12 | Plant in an orchard | TREE |
| 13 | Toward the back, on a ship | AFT |
| 14 | Crashed into head-on | TBONED |
| 16 | Political party that Truman did not belong to (abbr.) | REP |
| 17 | Design brand with an iconic lounge chair | EAMES |
| 18 | Beer company founded by eponymous German immigrants | COORS |
| 20 | College courses for HS students | APS |
| 22 | “No, no, no!” | ITISNT |
| 23 | “We need to talk” | SIT |
| 24 | Auto brand now owned by BMW | MINI |
| 25 | In the know | AWARE |
| 27 | Red ___ (spicy movie-theater candy) | HOTS |
| 28 | Dunk again | REDIP |
| 29 | Slip-___ (shoes without laces) | ONS |
| 30 | “I am become ___, destroyer of worlds” | DEATH |
Down
| Number | Clues | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Award that Oppenheads expect “Oppenheimer” to win | OSCAR |
| 22 | “just saying!” | IMHO |
| 2 | *chef’s kiss* | PERFECTION |
| 3 | Oppenheimer meeting Heisenberg, the Trinity test, and Lewis Strauss’s confirmation hearing, in “Oppenheimer” | PLOTPOINTS |
| 4 | Mischievous critter | IMP |
| 19 | Medical suffix | OSIS |
| 5 | ___ Europe (region that was once largely the USSR) | EASTERN |
| 15 | “The ___ Brigade” (2019 book subtitled “The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb”) | BASTARD |
| 10 | Molecule split in order to create a bomb | ATOM |
| 26 | How Cillian Murphy might say “small” | WEE |
| 6 | Burrito-filling option | CARNEASADA |
| 7 | Jean Tatlock, e.g. | FREESPIRIT |
| 8 | Newspaper article showing a point of view | OPED |
| 21 | Brother to Seth Curry | STEPH |