Backdrop features of "The Road Runner" Crossword Clue

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Backdrop features of "The Road Runner" Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

BACKDROP (noun)
1. scenery hung at back of stage
RUNNER (noun)
1. (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play
2. fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil

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More Daily Beast Crossword (4/16/2026) Answers

Across

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6. Save to watch later

10. Run off to get married

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13. Evans or Carnegie

14. With 22-Across:

16. ___ feed

17. "___ Freedom"

18. "All-American Girl" star Margaret

19. "Killer Flood: the Day the ___ Broke"

22. See 14-Across

24. Russell or Hilson

26. Wanders far and wide

27. 'My turn!'

28. Kurosawa to whom George Lucas and Steven Spielberg presented an honorary Oscar at the Academy Awards in 1990

29. "I've paid my ___" (opening line of "We Are The Champions)

30. Things you just have to have

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Down

1. Joy on television

2. "___ Action" (1991 courtroom drama)

3. They make people sneeze

4. Event you may see at the 2028 Olympics

5. __ mode

6. "CBS Mornings" rival

7. Craft beers

8. Kilmer who passed away last year, but appears in AI-generated form in 14-Across; in the film's trailer, which dropped yesterday, he says "Don’t fear the dead, and don’t fear me"

9. "Nicely done!"

15. TV show

18. Show that made Erik Estrada a household name

19. Viola who has won acting's "Triple Crown" (winning a competitive acting Emmy, Tony, and Oscar)

20. Turn away, as one's eyes

22. "___ Lies" (1994 comedy-action movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis)

23. Company whose name is the Japanese word for "six"

24. 2010's "Diary of a Wimpy ___"

25. Big bird

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