Complete Clue List
Across
1. What Pac-Man uses to turn the tables
3. Level 256 of "Pac-Man" ends the game. It's called a kill______.
5. Ms. Pac-Man says her husband's too critical. He's always...?
10. The sure sound of a "Pac-Man" game in progress...
11. American House known for trading in silver dollars? (abbrev.)
13. Worth 5,000 points in the original "Pac-Man"
15. Pac's goal is to eat this!
16. The original way to play "Pac-Man"
21. First word in the name of a Mediterranean port city
22. Peru's currency
23. Org. exposed by Edward Snowden
24. High Score initials used by ultra-patriotic "Pac-Man" champ Billy Mitchell
25. What usually hangs out here!
26. How many scores display on the "Pac-Man" high score screen?
27. Another term for 1A, found in all four corners of the maze
34. Creature in Tolkein's books
35. They can be Red or White
36. Pac-Man guest starred in "Mario Kart Arcade GP", alongside this other prodigious eater
37. Inspired 41A to create Pac-Man
38. Message spelled out in dots?
39. Put a yellow decal on these circular, junk-eating robots, and they're basically real-life Pac-Men...
43. File compression and extraction tool: Win___
44. First name of Mr. Iwatani, who created "Pac-Man"
45. Arabic for "father of," as in the name of a world capital
46. "Pac-Man" spin-off with a motion control gimmick; or, a pinball no-no
47. Not nigh
48. Lady Pac never took this title (long form), despite her game's story. I bet she _____ her own games
49. ...Pac-Man's firstborn son (for long)
Down
1. Before he was Pac, our Man had this easy-to-deface name
2. Bandai's Pac-Man Tamagotchi, for one
3. Abbrev. for one of FunTrivia's categories
4. Not far
6. Landlocked African capital
7. U.S. health secretary's High Score screen input
8. Medical kaboodle
9. Ken Uston mentions a bootleg with monsters whose "jowls" look like this President's (poss.)
10. You'll find these on either side of the maze (4, 7)
12. Top 40 song about a certain electronic malady... (6, 5)
14. Man!
15. Sales
16. Cable you may use to hook up 16D
17. Blinky, Pinky, Inky and...
18. Heifer's sound
19. Do this to a corpse, or it might become a 25A
20. The coin slot will do this before you realize it's broken. Pac-Man would be proud (3, 1, 7)
28. Smart-looking jacket of Indian origin
29. 2025 box office flop from Pixar
30. Cable you may use to hook up your 16-down
31. Red __ to Blinky as blue __ to Inky.
32. Britain-based online banking app
33. Be
40. Nonces
41. Degree in biz. - perhaps earned from Professor Pac-Man
42. Tall Arab building: ____ Khalifa