2/19/26 Answer Crosswords With Friends

2/19/26
Top 40 Thursday

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1A
Handles the music at a party
DJS

4A
“I’ve discovered your secret!”
AHA

7A
Nursing a sore knee, perhaps
GIMPY

12A
Liquor with brands like Captain Morgan
RUM

13A
Basketball official, for short
REF

14A
Best-selling album artist of the 2010s
ADELE

15A
One-fourth of cuatro
UNO

16A
Unit of wireless signal strength
BAR

17A
Sally’s “Sweet Babboo” in Peanuts
LINUS

18A
2001 #1 hit by Destiny’s Child
BOOTYLICIOUS

21A
“My country, ___ of thee…”
TIS

22A
___ classic (fan-favorite film)
CULT

23A
Have a dull pain
ACHE

25A
Make less burdensome
EASE

26A
Modern special effects technology: Abbr.
CGI

29A
2025 HUNTR/X song
GOLDEN

31A
1990 #1 hit by Wilson Phillips
HOLDON

33A
Acne treatment brand
OXY

34A
Dental exam image: Hyph.
X-RAY

36A
“I’ve taken it ___ myself to…”
UPON

37A
“Enough!”
STOP

38A
“A good time was had by ___”
ALL

39A
1989 #1 hit by the Bangles
ETERNALFLAME

44A
Online party-planning resource
EVITE

45A
“That was ___ close for comfort!”
TOO

46A
Bark incessantly
YAP

47A
Truth ___ (interrogation drug)
SERUM

48A
___ Max (streaming service)
HBO

49A
18th-century inventor Whitney
ELI

50A
Brunch item cooked on a griddle
CREPE

51A
“Despite all that…”
YET

52A
Word that can precede “room” or “center”
REC

1D
Decisively defeat
DRUB

2D
2007 movie starring Elliot Page
JUNO

3D
Without any hiccups
SMOOTHLY

4D
Fast-food chain: Half Pound Beef ‘N Cheddar
ARBYS

5D
“Physician, ___ thyself”
HEAL

6D
Lesotho’s continent
AFRICA

7D
Italian astronomer: observed Saturn’s rings
GALILEO

8D
Dummy
IDIOT

9D
List to order from
MENU

10D
Asset
PLUS

11D
“Owner of a Lonely Heart” band
YES

19D
All knotted up, score-wise
TIED

20D
Lucrative and undemanding jobs
CUSHY

23D
“How long ___ was that?”
AGO

24D
Actor Brian of “Succession”
COX

25D
Company in a 2001 bankruptcy scandal
ENRON

26D
Stereo component: 2 wds., abbr.
CDPLAYER

27D
Sticky material
GOO

28D
Countryside lodge
INN

30D
“Taken to the logical ___…”
EXTREME

32D
Interval of calm
LULL

35D
Feeling of indifference
APATHY

37D
Make operational: 2 wds.
SETUP

38D
Have ___ in both camps: 2 wds.
AFOOT

39D
Even just once
EVER

40D
Car part punctured by a nail
TIRE

41D
Region of the brain
LOBE

42D
Like most Best Director Oscar winners
MALE

43D
Magnificently awesome, in slang
EPIC

44D
Corner key on a keyboard
ESC