11/21/25 Answer Crosswords With Friends

11/21/25
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1A
Sound reverberation in a large, empty space
ECHO

5A
Houseplant containers
POTS

9A
Travel by helicopter
FLY

12A
Deliberately ignore
SHUN

13A
Tehran’s country
IRAN

14A
Debt acknowledgment
IOU

15A
Group performing in a play
CAST

16A
Elba’s costar in “Heads of State”
CENA

17A
Actor Hamm of the Apple TV+ series “Your Friends & Neighbors”
JON

18A
Holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November
THANKSGIVING

21A
Chum
PAL

22A
Cheer for flamenco dancers
OLE

23A
Nickname of the president on the $5 bill
ABE

26A
“Look at Me, I’m Sandra ___” (“Grease” song)
DEE

28A
Package of office paper
REAM

32A
Texas NFL team that’s always scheduled to play on 18-Across: 2 wds.
DALLASCOWBOYS

36A
Identical
SAME

37A
“Yes,” to a French speaker
OUI

38A
Opposite of 37-Across
NON

39A
Play segment
ACT

42A
End of some MMA matches: Abbr.
TKO

44A
Michigan NFL team that’s always scheduled to play on 18-Across: 2 wds.
DETROITLIONS

50A
“___ got a bad feeling about this”
I’VE

51A
“Carol” actress Rooney ___
MARA

52A
Menageries
ZOOS

54A
Irritate
VEX

55A
Make, like tea or coffee
BREW

56A
“Let me put your mind at ___”
EASE

57A
___-Man (role for Paul Rudd)
ANT

58D
Trees that grow from acorns
OAKS

59D
“The Tonight ___ Starring Jimmy Fallon”
SHOW

1D
“Stop loading this site” computer key
ESC

2D
Trivial conversation
CHAT

3D
___ puppies (side dish at Red Lobster)
HUSH

4D
Available from a keg: 2 wds.
ONTAP

5D
Burger toppings made from cucumbers
PICKLES

6D
Rocks that contain valuable metals
ORES

7D
Latin ballroom dance
TANGO

8D
Mollusk known for its slowness
SNAIL

9D
Brand of water with rectangular bottles
FIJI

10D
Crazy as a ___
LOON

11D
Egg foo ___ (Chinese-American dish)
YUNG

19D
Zilch
NADA

20D
Part of speech such as “walk” or “talk”
VERB

23D
Messages that interrupt YouTube videos
ADS

24D
Ewe’s sound
BAA

25D
Street targeted by horror villain Freddy Krueger
ELM

27D
“The Name of the Rose” author Umberto
ECO

29D
Time period that can last millions of years
EON

30D
“The Bear” actress Edebir
AYO

31D
Web portal that debuted 30 years ago
MSN

33D
“King ___” (Shakespeare tragedy)
LEAR

34D
Bank robbers in the Old West, for example
OUTLAWS

35D
Collaboratively updated website
WIKI

40D
Fast-food deal with fries and a drink
COMBO

41D
Headwear for a princess
TIARA

43D
Flows like slime
OOZES

44D
High-maintenance superstar
DIVA

45D
Not odd
EVEN

46D
Communication that might use such abbreviations as “brb” and “imho”
TEXT

47D
Difficult journey
TREK

48D
Biblical ark captain
NOAH

49D
Not that great: Hyph.
SO-SO

53D
Homophone of “so”
SEW