14-Across played Rooster in this 1982 comedy hit Crossword Clue

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

ROOSTER (noun)
1. adult male chicken
ACROSS (adverb)
1. transversely

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Across

1. 1985 comedy-mystery starring 14-Across, who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 80

5. "The ___ for Red October" (1990 action movie featuring 14-Across)

9. Features of some voices, like Bonnie Tyler's and Janis Joplin's

11. My heavens!

12. Failed spectacularly, as a skateboarder might

13. Mountains for "The Sound of Music"

14. He earned a Tony nomination for playing Mozart in 1981

16. Away from WSW

17. Fish-and-chips fish

18. Half a Belle Starrs hit heard in "Rain Man"

19. Relaxed sighs

22. 14-Across played King Arthur in this comedy on Broadway in 2005

24. Swedish superstore

26. Area with its own climate and species

27. Paella pieces

29. ''___ Marching" (Dave Matthews Band hit)

30. ___ off (hit a drive)

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1. Container for jugs of milk

2. Language that Portuguese and French developed from

3. 1972 hit for Bill Withers

4. Record label for Michael Jackson's "Thriller"

5. "I ___ You Paint Houses" (2004 Charles Brandt book)

6. 'The ___ Duckling'

7. Snooze

8. 6-pt. scores

10. "___ feather in his cap..."

15. Self-guiding vacuum

18. "Skip my turn"

19. "Home ___ 2"

20. Marge Simpson's pet name for her husband

21. Horse, poetically

22. Spot on the bus

23. "___ Too Proud To Beg"

24. Hoppy beer

25. Burns or Jeong

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