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Across 2. 1982 Morricone-scored extraterrestrial invader remake, “The _____” 6. Director of “The Hateful Eight” 8. Morricone honorific requested of journalists, as being not too formal, not too familiar 9. Akira Kurosawa inspiration for “A Fistful of Dollars” 10. Valkyries composer referenced in “My Name is Nobody” 11. Soviet silent classic referenced in climactic shootout of “The Untouchables,” “Battleship ________” 12. Meaning “Who Ever,” signature melody used in films “Maddalena” and “The Professional” (Italian, two words) 16. Director of “1900” 17. Morricone teacher, Italian modernist composer 22. Protest singer and Morricone collaborator on “Sacco & Vanzetti,” source of “Here’s to You” (full name) 24. Lurid Italian mystery-thriller-horror genre 26. Tuco: “When you have to shoot, _____. Don’t talk.” 27. Played Tuco (full name) 28. Composer-orchestra leader whose cover of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” reached No. 2 on the Billboard charts in 1968 29. English translation for Morricone avant-garde free improvisation ensemble “Il Gruppo” 32. Soprano who provided haunting, wordless vocals for “Once Upon a Time in the West” (full name) 36. Morricone house whistler 38. Morricone-scored Shakespeare adaptation for Zeffirelli 39. Newsreel style film set against North African war of independence, “The Battle for _______” 41. Played Moses in Morricone-scored miniseries (full name) 45. Black-hatted spaghetti western star born in Somerville, NJ (full name) 46. Beloved 1989 Best Foreign Language Film co-scored with son Andrea (two words) 47. Onscreen device that supplies musical intro to showdown in “For a Few Dollars More” (two words) 48. Sergio Leone star who bestowed honorary Oscar to Morricone in 2007 (full name)

Down 1. Cellist who recorded bestselling album of Morricone film themes (full name) 2. Morricone first instrument 3. Heavy metal band that introduces its concerts with “The Ecstasy of Gold” 4. Avant-garde composer who devised Morricone tribute album “The Big Gundown” (full name) 5. Nickname for trilogy of Sergio Leone westerns motivated by greed 6. Director of “Cinema Paradiso” and “Malèna,” both of which earned Morricone nominations 7. Morricone hometown 13. Mobster subject of “Bugsy” (full name) 14. Saint-Saëns “Carnival” movement referenced in “Days of Heaven” 15. Animal whose howl inspired iconic “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” theme 18. Morricone disliked this descriptor for Italian westerns 19. Oft-banned Pasolini film, loosely inspired by Marquis de Sade 20. Ruthlessly-truncated Sergio Leone crime drama, “Once Upon a Time in _______” 21. Best Supporting Actor winner for “The Untouchables” (full name) 23. “He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue.” 25. Location of 1978 World Cup, for which Morricone provided theme 30. Philadelphia tenor who recorded 1958 album of Neapolitan songs arranged by Morricone (full name) 31. Mysterious western drifter best known by four-word descriptor 33. International hit, later Broadway musical, about gay couple introduced to conservative parents of son’s fiancée (four words, in French) 34. Director of “Days of Heaven” 35. Film that earned Morricone his only competitive Oscar, in 2016, “The _______ _____” (two words) 37. Compositional process, often delegated in film, Morricone insisted on completing himself 40. Anglicized Morricone pseudonym used for ‘A Fistful of Dollars” 42. Morricone composer son 43. Alternate title for “Duck, You Sucker,” “A Fistful of ________” 44. Demonic possession hit whose sequel, subtitled “The Heretic,” was universally reviled, “The ________”