Across
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Bruce launched his US acting career as Kato in this “buzzy” 1966 superhero TV show, popularizing martial arts in the West
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Flipping Awesome: His 90’ goal vs RSL capped off a 4-0 victory, the largest ever in the series
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Tekken straight from Bruce's movies: Video game franchise partly inspired by Lee’s Kung Fu filmography
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Bruce incorporated this boxer’s floaty footwork into his own hybrid martial art, Jeet Kune Do
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Promoted as the next Bruce Lee, his uncredited role as a henchman in a 1973 film involved being subdued in a headlock by Lee
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SEA beat RSL 4-1 at this local venue, exactly one month after their first-ever meeting
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A viral 2008 Nokia ad used fake footage of Lee playing ping pong using this martial arts weapon(s)
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The martial arts world “froze” in disbelief at the news of Lee’s sudden death at this age
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Researchers concluded in 2022 that Lee’s death was likely caused in part by hyponatremia, a low concentration of this in the blood; think Sounders’ opponent
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Lee’s father sang professionally in this Italian musical style, albeit in Cantonese
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RSL defeated this team at Qwest Field in 2009 MLS Cup -- their only championship
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Bruce Lee’s Core Symbol, featuring this Chinese emblem of dualism, graces the collar of his Sounders kits
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Lee was born not in Seattle, but in this rival city, 1940
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Bruce worked as one at Ruby Chow’s, the first Chinese restaurant opened outside of Chinatown in Seattle, upon moving to the city in 1959
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Umbrella name in the West for Chinese martial arts, though in China it denotes any discipline requiring hard work and practice
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Bruce briefly gave lessons for this Cuban dance, having been crowned cha-mpion in 1958 competition
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Lee is credited with laying the groundwork (and footwork) for this abbreviated combat sport
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Bruce’s ‘Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute’ held its first makeshift classes in one of these structures in Seattle; they’re full on game day
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One of Lee’s most famous students stood at 7’2” and played for this 1980’s dynasty
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Tallied a Sounders record 4 goals in their first win sporting new dragon jerseys
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This red-bordered publication named Lee one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century in 1999
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Little ____: Meaning of his screen name, Siu-lung, having been born on the hour, day, and year of this creature under the Chinese zodiac
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“I fear not the man who has practiced ____ kicks once, but the man who has practiced one kick ____ times” (dang, that's a lot of PKs)
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Bruce met his future wife while giving a Kung Fu demonstration at this presidential Seattle high school (but they didn’t go out for lasagna after)
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Kung Fu Confucius: Lee studied drama and this at the University of Washington
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“Empty your mind — be formless, shapeless, like ____”
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Steve ____: Former student of Lee’s, pallbearer at his funeral, star of 1968 film Bullitt
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Last Sounder to score vs RSL (first name, because that’s the name they wear)
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Lee’s fighting style incorporated techniques from this Japanese martial art he learned in Seattle in the 1960’s (possibly from Austin Powers)
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Gently down the stream of tears: Only player not to convert PK in Sounders’ 2021 playoff shootout loss to RSL
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Young Bruce learned the slow, intentional movements of this Chinese martial art from his father; not to be confused with a spiced Starbucks drink
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What a glovely fellow: Bruce won a school tournament in this dueling sport in 1958
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Lee opened his second martial arts school in this US city, 1964 — you’d think it would’ve relocated to Vegas by now
Down
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Lee died 6 days before the release of this, his seminal Kung Fu action film (3 words); come in, Smaug
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First name of RSL player sent off in Sounders’ 2019 home playoff win; Wayne Rooney’s first club
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Director of 2019 film featuring unflattering portrayal of Lee — critics call his depiction “fiction”
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An allergic reaction to a painkiller caused the fatal buildup of fluid and massive swelling of this part of Lee’s body
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Goes with the color scheme: Sounders debuted Bruce Lee kits in 0-0 draw vs LAFC, a game painted with this many yellows
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Playing the titular character, Brandon Lee died on the set of this 1994 film from a prop gun; he’s buried 2,986 miles from his place of death, as ____ ____ flies
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1960’s cult responsible for the murder of Sharon Tate, a celebrity martial arts pupil of Lee’s
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Age of Bruce’s only son, Brandon, when he was fatally wounded on movie set in 1993; Yeimar
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This homegrown’s goal in 2011 conf. semifinal vs RSL was the last SEA would find against the Sandy squad for 4+ games
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“The key to ____ is first living a life worth remembering” — Bruce’s “eternal” quote appears on a bench at his Seattle gravesite
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Like a good neighbor, Bruce Lee is there: BL kits earned their first W in this town
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“Hey, hey, hey!”: First he was Salt-y, now he’s SEA
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“Hands” down the best: Played final game of acclaimed career in Seattle in Real's 2-0 playoff loss, 2019
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Bruce practiced both the Northern and Southern styles of this Chinese martial art, named after the reverent insect
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Netted Sounders’ second goal in 2-2 draw vs RSL to claim first-ever point in Utah; Tyrone, not Chad
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Bruce took his future wife here on their first date in 1963, one year after it opened
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Dread-ful start: This RSL mainstay saw yellow only 10 minutes into team’s first meeting with Seattle, 2009
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East meets “West”: Lee’s TV character Kato appeared in 3 crossover episodes of this series, where he was Adam-ant he wouldn’t film a fight in which he lost
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Lake View Cemetery, the site of Bruce and Brandon Lee’s graves, lies in this Seattle neighborhood; LGBruceLeeQ+
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Equagesic, the prescription painkiller Bruce took before his death, contained an anti-anxiety tranquilizer and this common pain-relief medicine
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A British pathologist determined Bruce died of an accident caused by a voluntary risk (strong painkillers), otherwise known as ‘Death by ____’; Huck and Jim had some
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Lee was discovered by a Hollywood hair stylist at a California tournament for this Japanese combat sport
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A British territory until 1997, Lee spent his childhood in this rhyming Chinese region, the birthplace of Kung Fu cinema
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Sky kicker, sky Walker: Lee met this Expendable and future costar at a 1968 martial arts tournament
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Residents of Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina chose Lee over this revered spiritual pacifist for a statue erected as a symbol of solidarity
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Bruce had these glands surgically removed from his underarms, wanting to keep a cleaner appearance during fights on film
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“Yahoo!”: ____ Martinez ended SEA’s 470-minute goal drought vs RSL en route to 2012 conference semifinal win
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