3/2/22 Answer Crosswords With Friends

3/2/22
Wayback Wednesday

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1A
What a baby wears to catch spills
Bib

4A
Laptop’s exit key
Esc

7A
Laborious task
Slog

11A
Ostrich cousin from Down Under
Emu

12A
The Dynamic ___ (Batman and Robin)
Duo

13A
Home to buzzing insects
Hive

14A
Step on the ___ (accelerate)
Gas

15A
Kamala Harris’s political party: Abbr.
Dem

16A
Word ending many hymns
Amen

17A
Classic 1941 film whose title character is partly based on William Randolph Hearst: 2 wds.
Citizen Kane

20A
Scientist Bill who wears a bow tie
Nye

21A
Buzzing insect
Bee

22A
Test ___ (help for the SAT say)
Prep

24A
Black stuff used in roofing
Tar

25A
Yellowjackets cable channel for short
Sho

28A
Actor who played a reporter and friend of the title character in 17-Across: 2 wds.
Joseph Cotton

31A
Help! from a sailor
Sos

32A
Raiders of the Lost ___
Ark

33A
Let me set your mind at ___ …
Ease

34A
Word after sweetie or cutie
Pie

35A
The White House’s Willow for example
Cat

36A
Actor who directed 17-Across and played the title character: 2 wds.
Orson Welles

41A
Feeble
Weak

42A
French assent
Oui

43A
Only month whose name contains just three letters
May

45A
Border
Edge

46A
Place to keep ashes
Urn

47A
Pub brew
Ale

48A
Increase rapidly like inflation
Soar

49A
Kid in day care
Tot

50A
___ green (color named for a vegetable)
Pea

1D
Implore
Beg

2D
Apple all-in-one desktop
iMac

3D
What the B stands for in an MBA degree
Business

4D
Redmayne with an Oscar for playing Stephen Hawking
Eddie

5D
Egyptian canal
Suez

6D
What Valerie Cherish made according to the title of a 2005-2014 TV series
Come Back

7D
Steak ‘n ___ (fast food chain)
Shake

8D
___ bean (vegetable also known as a butter bean)
Lima

9D
What a pizzeria cooks pizza in
Oven

10D
Actor Hackman
Gene

18D
Hunt and peck on a keyboard
Type

19D
Emperor during Rome’s big fire
Nero

22D
Attire for a slumber party for short
Pjs

23D
Kanga’s kid in kid-lit
Roo

24D
Tossed in the trash: 2 wds.
Threw Out

25D
Page in an atlas of America: 2 wds.
State Map

26D
___ So Shy (Pointer Sisters song)
Hes

27D
Total number of something that’s unique
One

29D
___ in the neck (annoyance)
Pain

30D
Greenish-blue
Teal

34D
Game where you might raise with a bluff
Poker

35D
___ Barton (secret identity of Hawkeye)
Clint

36D
Is in debt
Owes

37D
Change totally
Redo

38D
Long involved story
Saga

39D
Currency for Malta and Cyprus (and many other countries)
Euro

40D
Store’s cost-cutting event
Sale

44D
Word that means the same thing and has the same letters as aye
Yea