"The African Queen" scriptwriter Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. United States novelist (1909-1955)

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SCRIPTWRITER (noun)
1. someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas
AFRICAN (noun)
1. a native or inhabitant of Africa

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Across

1. Jeans material

6. Some P.D. alerts

10. Leaves a relationship

18. 14-line poem with only two rhymes across three stanzas

21. Per-hour cost to record music, say

22. Host of a 1990s late-night talk show that was briefly revived 20 years later

24. Completely exclude

25. Low-fat dairy desserts

26. Columbus’s birthplace

28. L.L. Bean competitor

29. Dug through for digital analysis

30. Auto racer ___ Patrick

32. Subway commuters, informally

37. Promoted boastfully

39. Others to Ovid

40. Old-fashioned garnishes

47. M.L.B. V.I.P.s

48. Al Capone adversary who only ever met him once in person

53. Selling points

55. [Boo-hoo!]

56. Hamlet or Laertes

57. Longtime children's clothing store with a portmanteau name

58. Dabbles in

60. Loads

61. Ratted

62. Make ready for new use

63. Exhibits brilliance

64. Something one might need to look good in the morning

68. Article of faith

69. Not-so-joltin' joe?

71. ___ group (chemistry classification)

72. Source of the "blood" in a meatless burger, maybe

73. Good lighting?

74. Spill the tea

75. Playground retort

77. Doses of a certain hallucinogen

82. ___ breve

83. Russian range

84. Sounding as if the speaker has some swollen glands

85. Much high school gossip

87. Metaphor for Juliet, in Romeo's soliloquy

89. Got up and at ’em

90. Official who reports to a president

91. Reddish-brown shade

94. Secretly communicating in class

98. Make out

100. Settings for telling some ghost stories

105. Superb, in slang

106. In 2021 she became the first tennis player to light the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony

108. Fried fare often served with marinara

110. Discards from fuzzy fruits

115. Blade runner?

117. Reassurance after bandaging a boo-boo

118. Till bills

119. Actress Richards of "Starship Troopers"

120. Felt absolutely determined about

121. Betting site's quote

122. Like the typefaces Helvetica and Arial

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Down

1. Cornrow or challah feature

2. Playwright Federico García ___

3. Like freshly poured concrete

4. Medical buildup of fluid

5. - (5 Down)

6. Verbally reacts to in awe

7. Links letters

8. Where Waterloo is

9. Picks

10. - (10 Down)

11. Something you might get a break with?

12. Composition of Catullus in ancient Rome

13. 'Les __'

14. Creator of the mystery-solving C. Auguste Dupin

15. Prior to, old-style

16. German soccer legend Manuel who innovated the "sweeper-keeper" role

17. "Abominable" ones

19. Rap title?

21. BART stop, for short

23. Gave the go-ahead

27. Scot’s denial

31. Eggy holiday drinks

33. Port city near Mount Carmel

34. High up

35. A persnickety person might pick it

36. Frodo's enchanting friend

38. What to do if someone makes a false accusation about you

40. Alternative to net

41. King of Castile

42. Device whose keypad often has Braille on it

43. Catch in the act

44. Florentine artist known for frescoes

45. “The Jetsons” boy

46. - (46 Down)

49. It's one thing after another

50. Have as food, formally

51. Former Maine senator Olympia with an apt name for her state

52. Taste or touch

54. Light to stop at

55. Like the best bonds, perhaps

58. Primps

59. Slow, musically

63. Brit's jolly cry of approval

64. Lacking a knack for

65. Zola who wrote "J'Accuse …!"

66. Critic's common seating preference

67. Lets go of

68. Some green cars

69. - (69 Down)

70. Hawkeye's real first name in the "Avengers" movies

72. Smile

73. Bamboozled

75. Boxer Roberto who fought Sugar Ray Leonard

76. Chimp's cousin

78. Attach, with "on"

79. Attach, with "on"

80. Cote quote

81. __ dog

84. Author Rice

86. Agnus __

87. Hopes that one might

88. Live, in a way

92. Girl who's "sweet as apple cider," per an old song

93. Admission

94. Tree with oblong yellow-green fruit

95. What's on the fast track?

96. Navy group

97. - (97 Down)

99. Tiny bit

100. Bars of soap

101. Appliance brand owned by Whirlpool

102. Morning in Monaco

103. Word with French or bench

104. - (104 Down)

107. Latvia, e.g., once: Abbr.

109. Drug sold in 77-Across

111. Compound found in marijuana, for short

112. Start of a bray or conclusion of a giggle

113. Sch. calendar abbr.

114. "___ be a pleasure!"

116. Call off

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