1/27/25 Answer Crosswords With Friends

1/27/25
Movie Monday

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1A
___ on the back (bit of encouragement)
PAT

4A
Bistros
CAFES

9A
Slack and Skype, for two
APPS

13A
Healthy ___ horse: 2 wds.
ASA

14A
Impossible to tell apart
ALIKE

15A
Bucket at the beach
PAIL

16A
___ Nas X (rapper)
LIL

17A
Student at a military academy
CADET

18A
What predators hunt
PREY

19A
2023 film in which Carey Mulligan played Leonard Bernstein’s wife Felicia Montealegre
MAESTRO

21A
Pieces in a Scrabble game
TILES

23A
That guy
HIM

24A
Tyson who participated in a Netflix boxing event in November
MIKE

25A
Long, epic story
SAGA

28A
“Penny ___” (Beatles song)
LANE

29A
Key that can move you to the next blank space on an online form
TAB

32A
2013 film in which Carey Mulligan played wealthy socialite Daisy Buchanan: 3 wds.
THE GREAT GATSBY

36A
“The Office” character whose original last name was Beesly
PAM

37A
Skip past
OMIT

38A
Lack of difficulty
EASE

39A
Went very quickly
SPED

40A
Anderson Cooper’s network
CNN

42A
Be at the wheel
STEER

44A
2022 film in which Carey Mulligan played New York Times investigative reporter Megan Twohey: 2 wds.
SHE SAID

48A
“Neato!”
COOL

49A
Reference book filled with locations
ATLAS

51A
Garden tool that often has a five-foot handle
HOE

52A
Verbal
ORAL

53A
Bare minimum
LEAST

54A
Wonderment
AWE

55A
Gets married to
WEDS

56A
Romantic outings to dinner or the movies, for example
DATES

57A
Go from ___ to worse
BAD

1D
AppleTV+ series “___ Royale”
PALM

2D
The largest continent
ASIA

3D
Story that might be “cautionary”
TALE

4D
Spiky plants in deserts
CACTI

5D
Thing to set before going to sleep
ALARM

6D
Classic name for a dog
FIDO

7D
___ out a living (barely get by)
EKE

8D
Where and when a story takes place
SETTING

9D
Granny Smith, for one
APPLE

10D
Remove the peel from
PARE

11D
Pastries served in slices
PIES

12D
Wily, like a fox
SLY

20D
Long, thick kind of carpeting
SHAG

22D
Big-box store headquartered in Scandinavia
IKEA

24D
“Interstellar” actor Damon
MATT

25D
Gas additive brand
STP

26D
“Now I get it!”
AHA

27D
Precious stone like a ruby
GEM

28D
“The best-___ plans of mice and men …”
LAID

29D
Airport screening organization: Abbr.
TSA

30D
Torso muscles
ABS

31D
“Toodle-oo!”
BYE

33D
Equipment in tug-of-war
ROPE

34D
The ___ City (“Wicked” location)
EMERALD

35D
Bills with Alexander Hamilton on them
TENS

39D
Offers for purchase
ADS

40D
Run after in a game of tag
CHASE

41D
Birds’ homes
NESTS

42D
Feeling achy or mad
SORE

43D
Mr. ___ (character with a “Wild Ride” at Disneyland)
TOAD

44D
Wooden piece in window blinds
SLAT

45D
Whaling captain of fiction
AHAB

46D
It’s east of Nebraska
IOWA

47D
Monopoly card
DEED

48D
Mooing animal
COW

50D
Gossip that you might “spill”
TEA