10/28/21 Answer Crosswords With Friends

10/28/21
Top 40 Thursday

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1A
Try to lose weight
Diet

5A
“Hurricane” rapper Kanye
West

9A
“Friend or ___?”
Foe

12A
___ Island (former US immigration location)
Ellis

14A
Square footage
Area

15A
What “&” means
And

16A
Country singer who’s married to singer/actress Lisa Hartman: 2 wds.
Clint Black

18A
Frozen water
Ice

19A
Cheerios ___ Crunch (cereal)
Oat

20A
Gone from one’s dinner plate
Eaten

22A
Go back to a previous position
Revert

26A
Wetland in the Everglades, for example
Marsh

28A
Get out of bed
Arise

29A
Chum
Pal

30A
The RMS Titanic was one
Ship

33A
Leafy herb in a mojito
Mint

34A
Go on a cruise
Sail

35A
2000 Elton John/Tim Rice musical
Aida

36A
Peruvian empire prior to the Spanish conquest
Inca

37A
Relatives
Kin

38A
___ Putty (classic toy)
Silly

39A
Online sales: Hyph.
Etail

41A
Women honored at balls
Belles

42A
A dictionary might have more than 1,000 of them
Pages

44A
Horror movie named for a tool
Saw

45A
Melber of MSNBC
Ari

46A
Country singer who’s married to actress Nicole Kidman: 2 wds.
Keith Urban

53A
“Don’t open ___ Xmas”
Til

54A
Homophone of “eve”
Eave

55A
Emmy and Oscar winner Jordan ___
Peele

56A
Lois’s husband, on “Malcolm in the Middle”
Hal

57D
Fictional detective Nancy
Drew

58D
Deceased
Dead

1D
Christmas’s month: Abbr.
Dec

2D
“___ see what I can do”
Ill

3D
“The Book of ___” (Denzel Washington movie)
Eli

4D
Metal used in kitchen foil, before aluminum replaced it
Tin

5D
Early American poet Whitman
Walt

6D
The Big Band ___ (the 1930s and 1940s)
Era

7D
Triple ___ (type of liqueur)
Sec

8D
Giver’s opposite
Taker

9D
Country singer who’s married to singer Tim McGraw: 2 wds.
Faith Hill

10D
“___ upon a time …”
Once

11D
“I Dream of Jeannie” star Barbara
Eden

13D
Part of a mall
Store

17D
Halloween animal with wings
Bat

21D
Lash out at
Assail

22D
Malek of “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Rami

23D
“___ go bragh!”
Erin

24D
Country singer who’s married to singer Amy Grant: 2 wds.
Vince Gill

25D
What’s passed along in a will
Estate

26D
Primary water pipe
Main

27D
1
All

29D
Container you’d use when milking a cow
Pail

31D
Doing nothing
Idle

32D
Covers the bill
Pays

34D
What people do at winter lodges
Ski

38D
Put the finishing touches on: 2 wds.
Sew Up

40D
The “A” in “FAQ”
Asked

41D
“___, humbug!”
Bah

42D
Way through a maze
Path

43D
Song written by Verdi, for example
Aria

44D
Beef-and-vegetables dish
Stew

47D
Commonly pierced part of the body
Ear

48D
“Now ___ seen everything!”
Ive

49D
Color of a serious alert
Red

50D
Spelling ___ (New York Times puzzle type)
Bee

51D
State that Lynyrd Skynyrd called “Sweet Home”: Abbr.
ALA

52D
Homer Simpson’s frenemy Flanders
Ned