4/14/25 Answer Crosswords With Friends

4/14/25
Movie Monday

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1A
Sticky stuff on a birch or walnut tree
SAP

4A
October’s birthstone
OPAL

8A
Chum
PAL

11A
Prefix with “system” or “tourism”
ECO

12A
“Peter Pan” pooch
NANA

13A
Put frosting on
ICE

14A
UNC ___ Heels (college team)
TAR

15A
2024 disaster movie starring Glen Powell
TWISTERS

17A
2023 rom-com starring Glen Powell: 2 wds.
HITMAN

19A
Miners extract them
ORES

20A
Best ___ Performance (Grammy category most recently won by Kendrick Lamar)
RAP

21A
Character in the “Star Wars” movies who adopts the last name Skywalker
REY

23A
Historic event of WWII: Hyph.
D-DAY

25A
“Loki” actor Hiddleston
TOM

26A
Party food that may be “seven-layer”
DIP

29A
2023 rom-com starring Glen Powell: 3 wds.
ANYONE BUT YOU

32A
Lil ___ X
NAS

33A
Avail oneself of
USE

34A
Adornment for a finger
RING

35A
Blasting material: Abbr.
TNT

36A
___ de Bont (director of “Speed”)
JAN

37A
Andy’s son on “The Andy Griffith Show”
OPIE

40A
With 43-Across, 2022 action movie starring Glen Powell: 2 wds.
TOP GUN

43A
See 40-Across
MAVERICK

46A
Shout after a toreador’s successful move
OLE

47A
Fresh ___ daisy: 2 wds.
ASA

48A
“Could ___ Magic” (Barry Manilow song): 2 wds.
ITBE

49A
Half of dos, in Spanish
UNO

50A
Rose’s father in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”
RON

51A
Lads
BOYS

52A
Try to get darker-skinned
TAN

1D
“The Orville” star MacFarlane
SETH

2D
South American berry
ACAI

3D
Plays in a biopic
PORTRAYS

4D
Like beer that can be easily poured by a bartender: 2 wds.
ONTAP

5D
One of 16 pieces on a chessboard
PAWN

6D
Singer DiFranco
ANI

7D
___ Vegas Review-Journal (newspaper)
LAS

8D
Fishing platform
PIER

9D
Section of a plot of land
ACRE

10D
“The ___ said, the better”
LESS

16D
Item created in Santa’s workshop
TOY

18D
___ Clinic (medical center in Minnesota)
MAYO

21D
Cover-up often donned after hot-tubbing
ROBE

22D
Bird that’s a symbol of Australia
EMU

23D
“Schitt’s Creek” actor Levy
DAN

24D
Genetic evidence from some crime scenes: Abbr.
DNA

25D
What a student might study for
TEST

26D
Slowly going extinct: 2 wds.
DYING OUT

27D
Atom that has a charge
ION

28D
Dog such as Frank in “Men in Black”
PUG

30D
Woman in a convent
NUN

31D
“He has a mind like a steel ___”
TRAP

35D
___ time (golfer’s scheduled start)
TEE

36D
Quips
JOKES

37D
“Lawrence of Arabia” star Sharif
OMAR

38D
El ___, Texas
PASO

39D
“Ghostbusters” director Reitman
IVAN

40D
Chain of frozen dessert stores
TCBY

41D
Forearm bone
ULNA

42D
“___ Lights” (Demi Lovato song)
NEON

44D
Poke gentle fun at
RIB

45D
“What am ___ believe?”: 2 wds.
I TO