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Crossroads Guitar Festival
Crossroads Guitar Festival: Eric Clapton's benefit concert series for the Crossroads Centre Antigua addiction treatment facility. Seven editions since 1999 (first as Eric Clapton & Friends at Madison Square Garden); 2026 held September 26-27 at Moody Center, Austin.
Crossroads of Ravens
Crossroads of Ravens (Rozdroże kruków) is Andrzej Sapkowski's 2024 standalone Witcher prequel, ninth book in the series, following an 18-year-old Geralt of Rivia and mentor Preston Holt; English translation by David French, September 30, 2025.
Crotch
Crotch: in clothing, the area where the legs join and the pant or underwear part covering it. The four-seam crotch intersection is a garment's highest-stress point, commonly reinforced with diamond or triangle gussets.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (臥虎藏龍) is Ang Lee's 2000 Mandarin-language wuxia film adapted from Wang Dulu's novel, starring Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, and Zhang Ziyi; it won four Oscars and became the highest-grossing foreign-language film in U.S. history.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (卧虎藏龙：青冥宝剑)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (卧虎藏龙：青冥宝剑) is Yuen Woo-ping's 2016 Netflix sequel to Ang Lee's 2000 wuxia film, starring Michelle Yeoh and Donnie Yen defending the Green Destiny sword from Hades Dai.
Crouton
Crouton (French croûton): small cube of toasted or fried bread used as garnish for salads, especially Caesar, and soups; English word since 1806, from croûte (crust), Latin crusta; also a packaged food market.
Crow (comics)
The Crow is James O'Barr's 1989 independent comic, published by Caliber Comics, about a murdered musician revived by a crow to avenge himself and his fiancée. It spawned films, a TV series, and a multimedia franchise.
Crow's Eye View
Crow's Eye View (Ogamdo) is a cycle of fifteen experimental poems by the Korean modernist writer Yi Sang, serialized in 1934 and halted after reader outrage; it is now a central text of Korean literary modernism.
Crowbar (American band)
Crowbar is an American sludge metal band formed in 1990 in New Orleans, Louisiana, built on slow, heavily downtuned riffs around founding member Kirk Windstein.
Crowded (TV series)
Crowded is a 2016 NBC multi-camera sitcom, also known as a full-nest family comedy, created by Suzanne Martin. Patrick Warburton and Carrie Preston star as parents whose adult daughters move back home; it ran one 13-episode season before cancellation.
Crowded House
Crowded House is an Australian-New Zealand rock band formed in Melbourne in 1985 by Neil Finn, Paul Hester, and Nick Seymour, known for "Don't Dream It's Over," the 1996 Sydney Opera House farewell, the 2007 reformation, and albums Dreamers Are Waiting (2021) and Gravity Stairs (2024).
Crowder (musician)
Crowder is the stage name of David Crowder (born 1971, Texarkana, Texas), a contemporary Christian musician, formerly frontman of the David Crowder*Band (1996–2012), now a solo artist on sixstepsrecords known for country-gospel crossover albums like Neon Steeple and Milk & Honey.
Crown (British coin)
Crown (British coin): five-shilling coin first struck in silver in 1551 under Edward VI, named for Henry VIII's 1526 gold crown. Redenominated 25p at decimalisation, £5 from 1990; 38.61 mm, 28.28 g, now commemorative only.
Crown jewels
Crown jewels are precious, symbolic regalia such as crowns, scepters, and orbs attached to sovereign office. Key collections include the British set at the Tower of London, the Danish garnitures at Rosenborg, and the French jewels partly stolen from the Louvre in 2025.
Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom
The Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom, also called the British regalia or Honours of England, are the coronation crowns, sceptres, orb and plate kept at the Tower of London: 100+ objects, 23,000+ gemstones, Cullinan I at 530.2 carats, last used at Charles III's 2023 coronation.
Crown Lake
Crown Lake is an American short-form teen drama web series (2019-2022) on Brat TV's YouTube channel, produced by Pretty Little Liars author Sara Shepard, following Nellie Chambers at a 1990s all-girls boarding school guided by a former student's diary; three seasons, 24 episodes.
Crown Magnetar
Crown Magnetar: American deathcore band from Colorado on Unique Leader Records, blending brutal and technical death metal; albums Everything Bleeds (2023) and The Hollowing of Godflesh (2026), EPs Alone In Death and Punishment.
Crown of Charlemagne
The Crown of Charlemagne is the name of two French regalia: the medieval coronation crown melted down in 1794, and Napoleon's 1804 imperial crown in the Louvre.
Crown of Christian IV
The Crown of Christian IV is the oldest surviving Danish royal crown, made in 1595-96 for Christian IV's coronation and displayed in the Treasury at Rosenborg Castle.
Crown of Eric XIV
The Crown of Eric XIV (Erik XIV:s krona) is the royal crown of Sweden, made in 23 carat gold in Stockholm in 1561 for the coronation of King Erik XIV.
Crown of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
The Crown of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, or Queen Mother's Crown, is a 1937 Garrard consort's crown with 2,800 diamonds and the Koh-i-Noor, worn at the 1937 and 1953 coronations and kept at the Tower of London.
Crown of Saint Louis
The Crown of Saint Louis is a 13th-century silver-gilt reliquary crown in the Louvre, given by Louis IX to the Dominican convent of Liège in 1267.
Crown of Saint Wenceslas
The Crown of Saint Wenceslas (Svatováclavská koruna) is the royal crown of the Kingdom of Bohemia, made for Charles IV before 1346 and first worn at his 1347 coronation.
Crown of Scotland
The Crown of Scotland is the coronation crown of the Scottish monarchs, refashioned in its present form in 1540 for James V and displayed at Edinburgh Castle.
Crown of sonnets
A crown of sonnets is a poem of fifteen linked sonnets in which each sonnet's last line opens the next, ending with a magistral built from their first lines.
Crown of the Andes
The Crown of the Andes is a gold and emerald votive crown made in Popayán, Colombia, set with over 400 emeralds and held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 2015.
Crown Royal
Crown Royal is a blended Canadian whisky created in 1939 by Seagram's Samuel Bronfman for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth's royal tour, sold in a purple bag, now Diageo-owned and made at Gimli, Manitoba.
Crown the Empire
Crown the Empire (Crown The Empire) is an American metalcore band formed in 2010 in Dallas, Texas, on Rise Records, known for concept albums The Fallout and The Resistance and now a duo of Andy Leo and Brandon Hoover.
Crowns of Egypt
Crowns of Egypt: the pharaonic regalia, chiefly the White Crown (hedjet) of Upper Egypt, the Red Crown (deshret) of Lower Egypt, and the combined Pschent or Double Crown, plus the Atef, Khepresh, and nemes; known from depictions since Narmer (c. 3100 BC) because no actual crowns survive.
Crows and Sparrows (乌鸦与麻雀)
Crows and Sparrows (乌鸦与麻雀, Crow and Sparrow) is a 1949 Kunlun Film Company satirical comedy directed by Zheng Junli, written by Chen Baichen and others, starring Zhao Dan, about Shanghai tenants resisting the KMT official who seized their house; awarded first prize in 1957 after Zhou Enlai's intervention.