2/28/25 Answer Crosswords With Friends

2/28/25
Sports Fan Friday

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1A
“When the ___ gets tough, …”
GOING

6A
Light switch position
OFF

9A
Hitch your wagon ___ star: 2 wds.
TO A

12A
Timothée Chalamet, for one
ACTOR

13A
Pop singer ___ Stewart
ROD

14A
Kid who’s an annoyance
IMP

15A
Four-time NBA championship-winning head coach who won Olympic gold with Team USA in 2024: 2 wds.
STEVE KERR

17A
Quick swim
DIP

18A
The “H” in “HBO”
HOME

19A
“Skip to My ___” (children’s song)
LOU

20A
“Meet the ___” (fight song of a New York baseball team)
METS

21A
Baton Rouge school: Abbr.
LSU

23A
Sallie ___ (student loan group)
MAE

25A
Enjoy a smorgasbord
EAT

28A
Baseball official, for short
UMP

30A
Metal waste, or something considered worthless
DROSS

34A
Five-time NBA championship-winning head coach who won Olympic gold with Team USA in 2021: 2 wds.
GREGG POPOVICH

37A
Italian seaport known for its salami
GENOA

38A
Sticky, black paving material
TAR

39A
___ down on the job (shirk one’s duties)
LIE

40A
Museum display
ART

42A
___ Zealand
NEW

44A
CBS police procedural starring Shemar Moore
SWAT

47A
“The Greatest” boxer Muhammad
ALI

49A
“Nothing ___ matters”
ELSE

53A
Sedan or convertible, say
CAR

54A
Two-time NBA championship-winning head coach who won Olympic gold with Team USA in 1992: 2 wds.
CHUCK DALY

56A
“The Mole” host Shapiro
ARI

57A
Internet provider that formerly had Buddy Lists
AOL

58A
See things the same way
AGREE

59A
There oughta ___ law!: 2 wds.
BEA

60A
The Fresh Prince of ___-Air (Will Smith sitcom)
BEL

61A
Performers with the biggest roles in a movie
LEADS

1D
Really deep cut
GASH

2D
Prefix that means “eight”
OCTO

3D
Collector’s ___ (rare object)
ITEM

4D
Work of fiction that’s hundreds of pages long
NOVEL

5D
Exam for some university seniors: Abbr.
GRE

6D
Double Stuf cookie brand
OREO

7D
Online discussion area
FORUM

8D
US president during most of World War II, for short
FDR

9D
Swim against the ___
TIDE

10D
Neglect to say
OMIT

11D
Groupon and Instagram, for example
APPS

16D
Sherman ___ (Eddie Murphy role in “The Nutty Professor”)
KLUMP

20D
“Jeopardy!” creator Griffin
MERV

22D
Iced tea sweetener
SUGAR

24D
Love to pieces
ADORE

25D
Thing that’s dyed at Easter
EGG

26D
“When the chips ___ down …”
ARE

27D
Lowest card in a royal flush
TEN

29D
Chili-cooking vessel
POT

31D
Extra virgin olive ___
OIL

32D
___-fi (Octavia E. Butler’s literary genre)
SCI

33D
Pronoun for a woman
SHE

35D
Animal that’s the source of cashmere
GOAT

36D
Press the ___ button (overreact to a problem)
PANIC

41D
Lake on the Nevada/California border
TAHOE

43D
Chunk of cheese
WEDGE

44D
Sign that a wound is healing
SCAB

45D
Ending for “silver” or “hard”
WARE

46D
Tune in an opera
ARIA

48D
Temporarily quiet period
LULL

50D
Superman’s birth mother
LARA

51D
Toboggan, for one
SLED

52D
Goggles protect them
EYES

54D
Type of transportation that you “hail”
CAB

55D
“Van Wilder” and “Epic Movie” actor Penn
KAL