7/26/25 Answer Crosswords With Friends

7/26/25
Smartypants Saturday

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1A
Like Samuel L. Jackson or Dwayne Johnson
BALD

5A
Stand like a fashion model
POSE

9A
Last part of some business names: Abbr.
INC

12A
Character who sings “You’re Welcome” in “Moana”
MAUI

13A
Uppermost point
APEX

14A
“Nothing to ___ here”
SEE

15A
Bump on a witch’s nose
WART

16A
Payment often made on the first of the month
RENT

17A
Rapper ___ Mama
LIL

18A
Man for whom a New York Ivy League school is named, shares name with actor Miller
EZRA CORNELL

21A
“Affirmative”
YES

22A
“The Facts of Life” star Charlotte
RAE

23A
Message broadcast to squad cars: Abbr.
APB

26A
At this moment
NOW

28A
Circus routines
ACTS

32A
Man for whom a Rhode Island Ivy League school is named, shares name with actor Hoult
NICHOLASBROWN

36A
Art ___ (geometric style)
DECO

37A
Gen ___ (baby boomer’s kid, for short)
XER

38A
Ghost’s cry
BOO

39A
Steal from
ROB

42A
Toy dinosaur who’s friends with Buzz Lightyear
REX

44A
Man for whom a Massachusetts Ivy is named, shares name with actor Krasinski
JOHN HARVARD

49A
President elected in 1860, familiarly
ABE

50A
Succulent plant used to treat burns
ALOE

51A
Typical resident of Jordan
ARAB

54A
Dairy animal
COW

55A
Back end
REAR

56A
Exercise designed to center the mind
YOGA

57A
Comic actor Jeong who used to work as a doctor
KEN

58A
Puts into a mixing bowl, say
ADDS

59A
Raced
SPED

1D
German luxury automaker
BMW

2D
Minor League Baseball’s top level
AAA

3D
Artificial bait for fishing
LURE

4D
Like a space cadet
DITZY

5D
Lightweight umbrella for a sunny day
PARASOL

6D
International oil cartel: Abbr.
OPEC

7D
Mister, in Madrid
SEÑOR

8D
Something beyond what’s required
EXTRA

9D
Tropical vacation spot surrounded by the sea
ISLE

10D
Apollo 11 astronaut Armstrong
NEIL

11D
Spreadsheet box
CELL

19D
City in western Nevada
RENO

20D
In close proximity
NEAR

23D
What “&” means
AND

24D
“Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a ___”
PIE

25D
Secretly include as an email recipient: Abbr.
BCC

27D
Candle material
WAX

29D
Corn part used to make Frosty the Snowman’s pipe
COB

30D
Number of bars in a package of Twix
TWO

31D
___-Cat (winter vehicle)
SNO

33D
Feature similar to an antler
HORN

34D
Waiters and waitresses
SERVERS

35D
La ___ Tar Pits
BREA

40D
Scarlett’s surname in “Gone With the Wind”
O’HARA

41D
Made into bundles, as hay
BALED

43D
Pictures that show bone fractures: Hyph.
XRAYS

44D
Tire-changing tool stored in a trunk
JACK

45D
Skinny woodwind
OBOE

46D
Rough-___ (not smoothly finished)
HEWN

47D
Street
ROAD

48D
Bit of rain
DROP

52D
Get older
AGE

53D
1987 Michael Jackson album that produced five #1 hits
BAD