Answer: ACT
ACT is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 523 times.
Referring Clues:
- Take steps
 - Dramatize, with "out"
 - Ham it up
 - Show biz group
 - Make a move
 - Do film work
 - Play the part
 - Behave
 - Pretense
 - Fake it
 - "If you ___ now..."
 - Do something
 - Decree
 - Operate
 - Masquerade
 - Take a part
 - It's the Law
 - It may be staged
 - Play piece
 - Deed
 - Play a role
 - One of five in "Othello"
 - Be in a cast
 - Feign
 - Have work in Hollywood
 - Show piece?
 - It may be hard to follow
 - Take measures
 - One of two in the play "Shylock Returns"
 - Perform in plays
 - Undertaking
 - Tread the boards
 - Function
 - Do not delay
 - Not hesitate
 - Make a scene?
 - Misbehave, with "up"
 - Play a part
 - See 46-Across
 - Play part
 - Part of a play
 - It separates two breaks
 - Take effect
 - "___ your age!"
 - With 62-Down, be demure
 - Cleanup target?
 - Do lines?
 - Front
 - Malfunction, with "up"
 - "___ now!"
 - Play one's part
 - Do one's part?
 - It's been passed
 - Appear
 - It may be passed on the Hill
 - Don't just sit there
 - Series of articles, maybe
 - Stop stalling
 - Work within a company, say
 - Tea __ of 1773, a cause of the Boston Tea Party
 - The whole song and dance?
 - Stage entertainment
 - Follow direction?
 - See 55-Down
 - Collection of scenes
 - Production part
 - Fill in (for)
 - Series of scenes
 - With 57-Down, commercial entreaty
 - What a scene is seen in
 - Do something dramatic
 - Performance piece?
 - Not delay
 - See 43-Across
 - Vaudeville segment
 - A third of some plays
 - 26-Down segment
 - Riot follower?
 - Perform on the stage
 - Step into character
 - Vaudeville bit
 - Vaudeville feature
 - Work on a stage
 - Riot or Stamp
 - Congressional measure
 - Stage performance
 - A fifth of "Hamlet"
 - Put-on behavior
 - Get off the fence
 - Opera division
 - Play segment
 - Group of scenes
 - Go in the movies
 - Nightclub bit
 - Put on a show
 - Facade
 - Make a scene
 - Circus segment
 - Get up on stage
 - It may be put on
 - Play division
 - Perform
 - Congressional output
 - Seem
 - Be part of the picture
 - Operetta division
 - Play thing?
 - Pretend
 - Pretend to be someone you're not?
 - "The Gong Show" offering
 - Play a part?
 - Parliamentary procedure
 - Do some role playing
 - Quit stalling
 - Perform in a play
 - One of five in "Julius Caesar"
 - Brave face, maybe
 - Behave badly, with "out"
 - Perform in a movie
 - Routine
 - Function improperly, with "up"
 - Legislator's creation
 - Do some lines?
 - Don't just talk
 - Appear in a picture
 - Put up a front
 - Charade
 - Congressional creation
 - Ballet division
 - Set of scenes
 - Play on Broadway
 - Accomplishment
 - Don't just stand there
 - With 40-Across, role-play (and a hint to this puzzle's theme)
 - Bit of legislation
 - Pretend to be
 - Make it happen
 - __ I
 - Put-on
 - Do one's part
 - Get busy
 - Nightclub performance
 - Comic's routine
 - Don't wait
 - Piece of legislation
 - Nightclub routine
 - Successful legislation
 - Performance part
 - Perform on stage
 - Circus routine
 - Comic's show
 - Show initiative
 - Play in a play
 - Opéra part
 - Perform on a stage
 - Emulate Eastwood
 - Shtick
 - Work on Broadway
 - Not sit on one's hands
 - Play Romeo
 - Misbehave (with ''up'')
 - Brave face, sometimes
 - Stop being apathetic
 - Play part, or play a part
 - Thing done
 - Emulate Washington or Ford
 - Behave in a certain manner
 - It may be heroic
 - Step into character, e.g.
 - Take the initiative
 - Song and dance, sometimes
 - Play subdivision
 - One-third of some plays
 - Be a thespian
 - False front
 - Circus unit
 - Make things happen
 - Word with "riot" or "class"
 - Legal instrument
 - End up in a cast?
 - A fraction of some plays
 - Statute
 - What a brave face is sometimes
 - Hop to it
 - Shakespearean segment
 - Be a major player?
 - Stamp or riot word
 - Clean Air, e.g.
 - Misbehave (with "up")
 - "Clean up your ___!"
 - Dramatic division
 - Appear in a movie
 - Play a character
 - Emulate Will Smith
 - One fifth of "Hamlet"
 - Take the stage
 - Bill, once passed
 - Be in a cast?
 - Unit for Shakespeare
 - "Sister __": Whoopi Goldberg film
 - False pretense
 - Work on a Broadway stage
 - Section of a play
 - Play period
 - Perform one's scenes
 - One way to earn an Emmy
 - Do a portrayal
 - "___ natural"
 - Section of a script
 - Musical performance
 - More than plan
 - See 1-Down
 - Work between the wings
 - Behave in a Spacey way?
 - Class ___
 - Create a role
 - Performance
 - Emote
 - One may have several scenes
 - ___ I
 - "Sister ___": Whoopi Goldberg film
 - Club routine
 - Play dead, e.g.
 - Do studio work
 - More than talk
 - Join a troupe
 - Work in a studio
 - A play may have one
 - Play parts
 - Bill
 - Perform in a skit
 - Do summer stock
 - Volstead ___: Prohibition enabler
 - "Just ___ naturally"
 - Not be passive
 - Operetta part
 - Role-play
 - Perform
 - Make believe
 - Make believe
 - With 41-Down, it follows "Think globally"
 - False show
 - Role-play
 - Spiel, e.g.
 - Bit of song and dance, e.g.
 - Formal decision
 - Play a part, or play part
 - Broadway play segment
 - Patriot ___
 - Join a cast
 - Drama division
 - Be decisive
 - Join the cast
 - Legislation
 - Intermission preceder
 - Try for a Tony
 - Be a 15-Across
 - Respond to a stimulus
 - Earn an Obie, maybe
 - Do something
 - With 58-Across, first play division
 - Not be idle
 - Sequence of scenes
 - Get off one's butt
 - A good way to wind up in a cast
 - Perform on a TV show
 - Job of 8-Down
 - "If you ___ now ..."
 - Pretend to be someone you're not
 - Emulate Olivier
 - What thespians do
 - Vegas attraction
 - How to end up in a cast?
 - It's divided into scenes
 - You may need to clean yours up
 - Don't hesitate
 - Work in a play
 - Vaudeville routine
 - Several scenes
 - Insincere display
 - See 23-Across
 - What a faker may put on
 - One way to enjoy being in a cast
 - Word with class
 - Work as a thespian
 - Legislation creation
 - Comport oneself
 - Recite lines
 - House work?
 - Perform in a cast
 - Play charades
 - Not just sit by
 - Legislative edict
 - Do some film work
 - Circus performance
 - Work for a director
 - It precedes "of God" or "of war"
 - Legislative decision
 - Play the role
 - Not stay idle
 - Play Hamlet
 - Drama part
 - Create some drama
 - Quit delaying
 - Play part or play parts
 - Take a stand
 - Work in Hollywood, perhaps
 - Talent show entrant
 - Work in summer stock, say
 - Riot or Homestead
 - Fake being
 - Drama section
 - Misbehave, with "out"
 - Dramatic unit divided into scenes
 - Take to the stage
 - Participate in an ensemble
 - Volstead ___
 - Legislative product, perhaps
 - Word after sex or riot
 - One may be hard to follow
 - "No Exit" has one
 - Have a role to play
 - Part of a tv play
 - Dramatize (with "out")
 - Caught in the ___
 - Do your part
 - Appear in a play
 - Perform lines
 - Exploit, e.g.
 - Congress creation
 - Get in on the ___
 - A.C.A. part
 - Emulate Michael J. Fox
 - Do a thespian's job
 - Dissemblance
 - Have a part
 - Work with a cast
 - Parliamentary output
 - Scream "Stella," for instance
 - Civil Rights, for one
 - One way to earn an Oscar
 - Revue segment
 - Go before the camera
 - Be on a role?
 - Drama unit
 - Not just sit
 - Exam with a Science Reasoning section
 - Play
 - Move forward on a decision
 - Work onstage
 - Play section
 - Conduct oneself
 - Be in a film
 - This fills a festival slot
 - Vegas performance
 - Don't delay
 - Just do it
 - Make one's move
 - See 35-Down
 - One of a pair in "Waiting for Godot"
 - Creation of congress
 - Make a decision
 - One of two in "Hamilton"
 - Vegas routine
 - What Denzel Washington can do
 - It may be tough to follow
 - Play component
 - Portray Romeo
 - Coll. entrance exam
 - Have a moving part
 - With 15-Across, "Don't delay!"
 - False modesty, e.g.
 - Have a part in a play
 - Perform a role
 - Work in a cast
 - Work with a company, say
 - It's only make-believe
 - Work on a soap, say
 - Part of a musical
 - German digit
 - "Hamlet" division
 - Stop quibbling
 - Insincere show
 - Opera segment
 - Produce an effect, as medicine
 - Play before the camera
 - Get into character
 - Have an onstage role
 - Law
 - Part of ACA
 - Appear in a film
 - "___ now!" (infomercial phrase)
 - You might clean yours up or put one on
 - Play a part ... or a play part
 - "Hamilton" segment
 - SAT alternative
 - Perform a part
 - Play unit
 - One of two in "Waiting for Godot"
 - Play a scene
 - Bill's possible future
 - "Prime Suspect 7: The Final ___"
 - Be in the picture
 - Exert energy
 - Play a role onstage
 - Beckett's "Endgame" has one
 - Lay about? No, U-turn
 - One of two in "Don Giovanni"
 - Congressional statute
 - Comedy ___
 - Stage show segment
 - ___ of Congress
 - School recital segment
 - "Macbeth" division
 - It's not for real
 - Take effect, as meds
 - One of five in many plays
 - ACA part
 - Not twiddle one's thumbs
 - Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" has one
 - Talent show entry
 - Theater segment
 - Portray a character
 - Play a part (in)
 - Be dramatic?
 - Don't just sit
 - Show piece
 - One of five in "Hamlet"
 - Perform in a skit, say
 - Univ. entrance exam
 - Segment of a play
 - One of two in Albee's "Three Tall Women"
 - Its max. score is 36
 - Something a false person puts on
 - Talent show participant
 - Perform onstage
 - Not just stand there
 - Stamp ___ of 1765; colonists' bane
 - Word often followed by a Roman numeral
 - Be effective
 - Exam with a max score of 36
 - Make a scene, in a way
 - Apt exam for an aspiring theater major?
 - Not sit idly by
 - One of four in "The Crucible"
 - Not just think
 - Do what's expected
 - Its max score is 36
 - "Macbeth" part
 - Theater section
 - Perform a stage role
 - Perform in a film
 - Entertain in a cast
 - H.S. exam with a Science section
 - Variety show segment
 - Perform in the play "Sweat"
 - Broadway division
 - One of two in most musicals
 - Juggling or magic, in a talent show
 - Put on a performance
 - III, e.g., in "Richard III"
 - Stop hesitating
 - “sister ___”
 - ___ Up, political group formed in response to the AIDS crisis
 - Enter the picture?
 - Section of a musical
 - See 34-Across
 - Segment of a ballet
 - Dramatic segment
 - Segment of a musical
 - Assume a role
 - University entrance exam, for short
 - A play may have just one
 - Part of a play group?
 - Perform like Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
 - The musical "Come From Away" has one
 - Pretense that's put on
 - See 18-Down
 - Not just sit around daydreaming
 - Be in the picture?
 - "___ Like You Know" (LaShun Pace song)
 - Perform in character
 - Lawmaker's creation
 - Civil Rights ___ of 1964
 - Play a role on stage
 - Stage play part
 - Exam taken by many jrs.
 - Sham
 - Talent show performance
 - Get your ___ together
 - Be part of a cast
 - The A in ICWA
 - The second "A" of 22-Down
 - Play thing
 - Exam that many take in H.S.
 - Play part or play a part
 - ___ Up (AIDS advocacy group)
 - Emulate Hanks
 - One of two in the play "Trouble in Mind"
 - One of five in a Shakespeare play
 - Fulfill a Star Performer card in Cranium
 - State lines?
 - Performer's routine
 - ___ your wage (do only the work you're paid to do)
 - Perform in "Blood at the Root"
 - Perform in "Radio Golf"
 - Subdivision of a play
 - See 67-Across
 - Play a part, or a play part
 - Perform in "Trouble in Mind"
 - Contribute to a company, say
 - One of three in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"
 - Bit of law
 - ___ on one's 38-Across
 - Magician's set
 - Appear onstage
 - That's unreal!
 - Perform a monologue, say
 - Play, or part of a play
 - Perform a monologue
 - Bring characters to life on stage
 - "You're a tough ___ to follow!"
 - Play a part in a play
 
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