10/2/21 Answer Crosswords With Friends

10/2/21
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1A
Cushions that come between mattresses and bedsheets
Pads

5A
Notable achievement
Feat

9A
___ desk (support for writing while sitting down)
Lap

12A
From Naples or Milan, maybe: Abbr.
Ital

13A
Walt Disney World park featuring Spaceship Earth
Epcot

15A
Great anger
Ire

16A
South ___ (bottom of the Earth)
Pole

17A
Happen many times
Recur

18A
Cone-bearing tree
Fir

19A
Former prime minister of Canada whose first name is the capital of South Dakota: 2 wds.
Pierre Trudeau

22A
Thick as ___ soup (description of heavy fog)
Pea

23A
Sleek swimmer with flippers
Seal

24A
“No ___, ands, or buts”
Ifs

27A
Best Picture winner for 2012 that was based on a CIA operation
Argo

30A
Fey who wrote the film “Mean Girls”
Tina

33A
“Moonstruck” actress whose first name is the capital of Washington: 2 wds.
Olympia Dukakis

37A
“You’ve Got Mail” director Ephron
Nora

38A
Singer/actress Horne who was a civil rights advocate
Lena

39A
Large deer of the Rockies
Elk

40A
___ League (group of Asian and African nations)
Arab

43A
Product used to change hair color
Dye

45A
“Doctor, My Eyes” singer whose first name is the capital of Mississippi: 2 wds.
Jackson Browne

51A
“The Simpsons” character who sells Squishees
Apu

52A
Color of a clear blue sky
Azure

53A
Little computer image to click on
Icon

55A
___ Moines (state capital)
Des

56A
Prods with a stick
Pokes

57A
Fond nickname for Grandma
Nana

58A
Body spray with such varieties as Ice Chill and Epic Sky
Axe

59A
What the sun does at dusk
Sets

60A
Long cut from a knife
Gash

1D
Hero of “Great Expectations,” or any of Gladys Knight’s backup singers
Pip

2D
Resting upon
Atop

3D
Surrealist artist Salvador
Dali

4D
Slumber
Sleep

5D
Maker of sports cars and race cars with a prancing stallion logo
Ferrari

6D
Fencing sword at the Summer Olympics
Epee

7D
Checking or savings fund at a bank: Abbr.
Acct

8D
Guided trips
Tours

9D
Resembling what’s real, as a doll
Lifelike

10D
Solo opera piece
Aria

11D
Fourth-most populous country in South America
Peru

14D
Accurate
TRUE

20D
“You ___ what you sow”
Reap

21D
Statistics in a spreadsheet
Data

24D
Particle that carries a charge
Ion

25D
Rapper ___ Rida
Flo

26D
New York university whose teams are the Orange
Syracuse

28D
Israeli actress Gadot
Gal

29D
Wordsworth poem, sometimes
Ode

31D
Nada
Nil

32D
“___ not what your country can do for you …”
Ask

34D
Cuban of “Shark Tank”
Mark

35D
Take off one’s clothes
Undress

36D
Clobber in the boxing ring
Kayo

41D
Super-quickly, on a memo: Abbr.
ASAP

42D
Clownish idiots
Bozos

44D
Basketball Hall-of-Famer Patrick who’s the head coach at Georgetown
Ewing

45D
First name of Willow Smith’s mother
Jada

46D
Zenith
Apex

47D
Destructive warhead, for short
Nuke

48D
Rock singer Michaels
Bret

49D
Overseer of campus sports: Abbr.
NCAA

50D
Incalculably long times
Eons

54D
“Eh, I don’t think so”
Nah