Apt adjective for today that's needed to make sense of eight puzzle answers

Question:

Answer:

AMERICAN

Length:

Similar Crossword Questions:

Word needed to be added to 12 appropriately placed answers in this puzzle for their clues to make sense
Apt word to substitute for each of four black squares to make sense of the across answers on either side of them
"Apt" geographical element needed to complete the answers to 10 of this puzzle's clues
Today's honoree, "camouflaged" in 10 other puzzle answers
Apt subject for today that's hidden in this puzzle's four longest answers
"Make today delicious" food giant
Go crazy ... or a hint on how to enter five answers in this puzzle
Any of five that begin this puzzle's longest answers
Classic breakup line, and a hint to the formation of this puzzle's theme answers
Sign of burnout hidden in eight puzzle answers
Campus party maneuvers, and features of six answers in this puzzle
Feature of this puzzle's three long Down answers
"We're on to you!" (and a hint to how this puzzle's other four longest answers were created)
Event where the number 12 is important, and a feature of 12 two-word answers in this puzzle
2012 Bond film ... or a hint to six other Down answers in this puzzle
The word, as suggested by the saying formed by the ends of this puzzle's four longest answers
Character who, in an 8/15/1939 Hollywood premiere, speaks the first words of this puzzle's five other longest answers
Quarrel ... or a feature of five answers in this puzzle
They're found at the end of this puzzle's longest answers
Make sense, with "up"
What this puzzle may make you say
It precedes the last words of the four longest puzzle answers
700, and the initials of this puzzle's longer answers
He won 26 Oscars, including an Academy Honorary Award (consisting of one full-sized and seven miniature statuettes) for the film depicted in this puzzle's starred answers
You can find one in the four longest puzzle answers, even if you don't believe