Complete Clue List
Across
3. Some like it hot
8. 8A and 25D: Keaton appeared in 14 shorts with ____ "Fatty" ____ (first name)
9. Mentoring, as Keaton provided to comedienne Lucille 22A
10. A trick, like Professor Post (Keaton) experiences in 1932's "Speak (39A)"
11. Keaton was known as "The Great Stone Face" because of his deadpan ____
14. Letter container (abbr.)
15. Poetic black
16. Unimpaired state
21. Faux ____; according to Keaton his biggest was signing with MGM in 1928
22. Lucille ____, comedienne mentored by Buster Keaton
23. Concepts: Keaton would recycle these from his family's vaudeville act and his previous films
24. Reaction to a bad joke
26. Decline, as happened with Keaton's career after signing with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
27. CBS comedy-variety production where Keaton made his commercial TV debut in 1949: "The ____" (2,4,4)
31. Easy pitches (Keaton was a baseball fan and often played the game between takes when filming)
32. "The Cameraman" (1928) is regarded as ____ of Keaton's best silent comedies
33. Keaton's cause of death: ____ (4,6), unsurprising because he was a heavy smoker
37. In "Sherlock Jr." (1924), Keaton broke his ____ in a stunt but did not realise it until years later
38. Wins big (6,2)
39. 1932 prohibition era comedy: "Speak ____" starring Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante
40. Keaton only appeared twice on film with ____ Charles Chaplin (Brit. title)
Down
1. In 1939, Keaton was hired by ____ Pictures for a series of 10 comedy two-reelers
2. Movie script; Keaton starred in "Grand Slam Opera" (1936) and wrote the ____, too
3. Keaton has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: for motion pictures and for ____
4. Thing to fill or bridge (1,3)
5. Keaton's third ____ was Eleanor Norris
6. Close friends, as Keaton was with 8A "Fatty" 25D
7. Keaton was one of 10 ____ celebrated on a 1994 series of US commemorative postage stamps
12. Keaton made commercials for ____ Victor (init.)
13. Harry Houdini is said to have called him "Buster" after he fell down a ____ of stairs without injury
17. Influence
18. Someone employed to provide social services
19. Agility essential for performers like Keaton working in physical comedy
20. One rising at dawn
22. Exiter's exclamation
25. 8A and 25D: Keaton appeared in 14 shorts with ____ "Fatty" ____ (surname)
28. In early films, Keaton performed his own stunts, sometimes acting as a ____ for other cast members
29. In 1957, Keaton made a surprise appearance on the ____ program "This Is Your Life" (init.)
30. Keaton's ____ Buster Keaton Jr. appeared in "Our Hospitality" (1923) as Willie McKay, aged one
34. In "The General" (1926), Keaton plays "Johnnie ____" (Confederate uniform colour)
35. Like some early filmmakers, Keaton was both actor and director ____ (as well)
36. Keaton's chase scene in "Hollywood Cavalcade" (1939) was modelled on those from the Keystone ____