7/16/20 Answer Crosswords With Friends

7/16/20
Top 40 Thursday

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1A
___ school (play hooky)
Skip

5A
Really wowed
Awed

9A
Fareed Zakaria GPS channel
CNN

12A
Frozen II character voiced by Kristen Bell
Anna

13A
Beautiful ___ (Beyoncé and Shakira hit)
Liar

14A
You there!
Hey

15A
Connection used instead of a data plan: Hyph.
Wifi

16A
Colin Kaepernick’s hairstyle
Afro

17A
Tool kept near a woodpile
Axe

18A
Rags to Riches singer who won the 2017 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song: 2 wds.
Tony Bennett

21A
Iced Royal English Breakfast ___ Latte (Starbucks drink)
Tea

22A
Whale’s habitat
Sea

23A
Point as a pistol
Aim

26A
Celebrity gossip website
TMZ

28A
Okay but improvable: Hyph.
Soso

32A
Coming Out of the Dark singer who with her husband Emilio won the 2019 Gershwin Prize: 2 wds.
Gloria Estefan

36A
The Not-Too-Late Show With ___ (HBO Max series)
Elmo

37A
Scandinavian country west of Sweden: Abbr.
Nor

38A
Much ___ About Nothing
Ado

39A
Animal that’s a symbol of stubbornness
Ass

42A
Let’s put a ___ in it for now (We’ll talk about that later)
Pin

44A
Friends in Low Places singer who won the 2020 Gershwin Prize: 2 wds.
Garth Brooks

49A
___ Jong-un (North Korean leader)
Kim

50A
Metropolitan ___ (a city and its surrounding suburbs)
Area

51A
Competes (for)
Vies

53A
___ got something to say about this!
Ive

54A
Chance to roll the dice in Monopoly say
Turn

55A
Fashion magazine whose name reads the same forward and backward
Elle

56A
Daniel in the lions’ ___ (Bible story)
Den

57A
Brand of toaster waffles
Eggo

58A
Artist’s upper-story apartment
Loft

1D
Witnessed
Saw

2D
Make mittens with yarn
Knit

3D
Facts for short
Info

4D
Stuff on an artist’s palette
Paint

5D
Its largest cities are Birmingham and Montgomery
Alabama

6D
Chrissy Teigen to John Legend
Wifi

7D
Works hard for
Earns

8D
Aircraft without a pilot
Drone

9D
Informal conversation over Zoom perhaps
Chat

10D
The ___ thing I knew …
Next

11D
Holiday when people drink champagne at midnight: Abbr.
NYE

19D
Mythical relative of Bigfoot
Yeti

20D
Simplicity
Ease

23D
Gain maturity
Age

24D
Down with a sickness
Ill

25D
Serial ___ (1994 John Waters movie)
Mom

27D
Japanese branch of Buddhism
Zen

29D
The Promise ___ New Day (Paula Abdul hit): 2 wds.
Of A

30D
Opposite of happy
Sad

31D
Be My Yoko ___ (Barenaked Ladies song)
Ono

33D
Loud sound from a revving engine
Roar

34D
Highest female singing voice
Soprano

35D
Three-person band
Trio

40D
North Dakota South Carolina or West Virginia
State

41D
Beats me shoulder gesture
Shrug

43D
Book such as The Color Purple or The Bluest Eye
Novel

44D
Donate
Give

45D
Last word of the Nicene Creed and the Lord’s Prayer
Amen

46D
Icy obstacle in an ocean for short
Berg

47D
Drug smuggler’s weight unit
Kilo

48D
___-help book
Self

49D
Someone who’s not yet an adult
Kid

52D
Ready ___ go!
Set