1/12/26 Answer Crosswords With Friends

1/12/26
Movie Monday

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1A
Chest muscle, briefly
PEC

4A
Microsoft Word creation, for short
DOC

7A
___ Sync for Your Life (feature of “RuPaul’s Drag Race”)
LIP

10A
“I ___ Man of Constant Sorrow” (folk song): 2 wds.
AMA

11A
Spanish word for “river”
RIO

12A
Second human mentioned in Genesis
EVE

13A
“The Mummy” actress who starred in the Yorgos Lanthimos movies “The Lobster” and “The Favourite”: 2 wds.
RACHELWEISZ

16A
Diamond-shaped toy that has a tail
KITE

17A
Crafty
SLY

18A
Identity-concealing name
ALIAS

20A
Remove, as a Blu-ray Disc
EJECT

25A
Thought-provoking
DEEP

28A
Hail ___ (signal the taxi driver): 2 wds.
ACAB

29A
“The Power of the Dog” actor who starred in Lanthimos’s “Kinds of Kindness” and “Bugonia”: 2 wds.
JESSEPLEMONS

33A
Pennsylvania city named for a Native American tribe
ERIE

34A
Sammy who hit 66 home runs in 1998
SOSA

35A
Silvio’s last name, on “The Sopranos”
DANTE

37A
Company that makes networking equipment
CISCO

41A
Moody subgenre of rock
EMO

44A
Type of fish that koi is
CARP

45A
“Platoon” actor who starred in Lanthimos’s “Poor Things” and “Kinds of Kindness”: 2 wds.
WILLEMDAFOE

49A
___ by (live hand-to-mouth)
EKE

50A
Black gunk
TAR

51A
Body part on the side of the head
EAR

52A
Bill’s friend in a series of time-travel movies
TED

53A
“Pick a card, ___ card”
ANY

54A
Music style related to reggae
SKA

1D
Cold-weather jacket
PARKA

2D
It may be spam
EMAIL

3D
Plants with prickles
CACTI

4D
“Still ___” (1999 rap song)
DRE

5D
Products that can come from corn or coconuts
OILS

6D
Batman’s hood
COWL

7D
Garland that might be worn with a sarong
LEI

8D
Hospital drip sources: Abbr.
IVS

9D
Candy in a collectible dispenser
PEZ

14D
Accessory worn by a telemarketer or drive-thru worker
HEADSET

15D
Symbol in CBS’s logo
EYE

19D
“We’ll just have to ___ what happens”
SEE

21D
Where Rastafarianism developed
JAMAICA

22D
“Green” prefix
ECO

23D
Paint container
CAN

24D
Channel that airs “Wipeout”
TBS

26D
Short records: Abbr.
EPS

27D
West Bank political group: Abbr.
PLO

29D
Buddy Ebsen’s role on “The Beverly Hillbillies”
JED

30D
Historical period
ERA

31D
Moral lapse
SIN

32D
Key that’s near F1
ESC

36D
Slithery fish
EEL

38D
Vaults that may be opened by spinning a dial
SAFES

39D
Toad’s sound
CROAK

40D
“The Phantom of the ___”
OPERA

42D
Parent company of Messenger and WhatsApp
META

43D
Middle Eastern sultanate
OMAN

45D
Rainy
WET

46D
Actor Barinholtz of “The Studio”
IKE

47D
Took charge of
LED

48D
Opposite of 45-Down
DRY