7/20/19 Answer Crosswords With Friends

7/20/19
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1A
Information on spreadsheets
Data

5A
Competitor of Denny’s
IHOP

9A
Psychedelic drug touted by Timothy Leary: Abbr.
LSD

12A
___ your eyes (look the other way)
Avert

14A
Actress Spelling of the upcoming BH90210
Tori

15A
___ loss for words: 2 wds.
At A

16A
2004 Wimbledon champion Sharapova
Maria

17A
Shellfish in chowder
Clam

18A
Boar’s mate in the pigpen
Sow

19A
African-American author of Invisible Man winner of the 1953 National Book Award for Fiction: 2 wds.
Ralph Ellison

22A
State whose motto is North to the Future
Alaska

24A
Image worshiped as a god
Idol

25A
Architect I.M. who died this year at age 102
Pei

26A
Tie again as shoes
Relace

30A
African-American author of Between the World and Me winner of the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction: 2 wds.
Tanehi Coates

36A
Type of potato used in McDonald’s fries
Russet

37A
Bleah!
Ugh

38A
Floral necklaces at a luau
Leis

40A
Color of Cheetos
Orange

43A
African-American author of The Good Lord Bird winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction: 2 wds.
James McBride

47A
Something downloaded to a tablet
App

48A
___ Grey (variety of tea)
Earl

49A
Yummy
Tasty

52A
Waterlogged
Wet

53A
Rapper and Law & Order: SVU star whose birth name is Tracy Marrow: Hyph.
Ice T

54A
Entertain in a humorous way
Amuse

55A
Foxy
Sly

56A
What anchors deliver on TV
News

57A
Brief quarrel
Spat

1A
Aswan High ___ (structure on the Nile River)
Dam

2A
1950s movie star Gardner
Ava

3D
The T in ATV
Terrain

4D
Musical highlights in an opera
Arias

5D
Feel an urge to scratch
Itch

6D
Bagel’s center
Hole

7D
___ hygiene (dentist’s concern)
Oral

8D
Baltimore racetrack that hosts the Preakness
Pimlico

9D
It’s used in team roping competition at rodeos
Lasso

10D
Bar customer’s seat
Stool

11D
From Dusk Till ___ (1996 movie)
Dawn

13D
Converse
Talk

20D
City where the Notre-Dame cathedral is
Paris

21D
Start of a plan
Idea

22D
He’s not ___ to listen to you
Apt

23D
Actress Seydoux of Spectre
Lea

27D
Feminine suffix for heir or count
Ess

28D
___ detector (polygraph)
Lie

29D
Tom Hanks for one
Actor

31D
Large lake on the US/Canada border
Erie

32D
Barack Obama’s middle name
Hussein

33D
Gets ready to play a musical instrument: 2 wds.
Tunes Up

34D
Item in a bird’s nest
Egg

35D
___-Devil (1989 Meryl Streep film)
She

38D
Where a political candidate might wear an American flag pin
Lapel

39D
Needing a refill
Empty

41D
Oz actress Moreno
Rita

42D
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas
Adams

43D
Spielberg thriller about a terror at the beach
Jaws

44D
Cop’s riot-control spray
Mace

45D
The behind-the-scenes workers on a movie set
Crew

46D
Sandwiches with three main ingredients for short
BLTs

50D
___ agent (worker who does pat-downs at the airport): Abbr.
TSA

51D
Up to the present time
Yet