3/24/26
TV Tuesday
Are you stuck with the Crosswords With Friends Puzzle Today? Stuck No More. We offer complete solutions as well as “no spoiler” mode to give you that little extra push. Or simply use this cheat sheet to help you get the best and fastest completion time possible.
1A
Pen ___ (distant correspondent)
PAL
4A
Prohibition or the Gilded Age, for example
ERA
7A
Sound of an electric bug killer
ZAP
10A
Former Argentinean First Lady Perón
EVA
11A
___ in the neck (nuisance)
PAIN
12A
Microsoft cofounder Gates
BILL
13A
Actor Curry who released the 2025 memoir “Vagabond”
TIM
14A
Awestruck
AGOG
15A
Very unattractive
UGLY
16A
“Mare of Easttown” actor… “The Beauty”: 2 wds.
EVAN PETERS
19A
Body part with a lobe
EAR
20A
Dismiss from a job: 2 wds.
LAYOFF
24A
Low male voice in a chorus
BASS
27A
Colin Hanks, to Tom Hanks
SON
28A
___ Lanka
SRI
29A
“That ’70s Show” actor… “The Beauty”: 2 wds.
ASHTON KUTCHER
33A
Spy group in Bourne movies
CIA
34A
24-hour time span
DAY
35A
“The ___ U Give”
HATE
36A
The Aloha State
HAWAII
38A
___ Tomé and Príncipe
SAO
40A
“Pose” actor… “The Beauty”: 2 wds.
JEREMYPOPE
45A
“Toodle-oo!”: Hyph.
TA-TA
48A
Injury, to a toddler
OWIE
One Clue Crossword
WordBrain
WordBubbles!
Word Whizzle
Words Crush
49A
Image made by a laser pointer
DOT
50A
Something that might make you say “Pee-yew!”
ODOR
51A
Places chips on the table, in poker
BETS
52A
Spanish number before tres
DOS
53A
Homophone of “one”
WON
54A
Suffix meaning “in a way”
ISH
55A
Introverted
SHY
1D
Politician Buttigieg
PETE
2D
Tel ___
AVIV
3D
Monk from Tibet
LAMA
4D
Gung ho
EAGER
5D
Mob scene
RIOT
6D
Author Maya
ANGELOU
7D
___ and zag
ZIG
8D
“That’s ___ she wrote”
ALL
9D
Two-___ (having two layers)
PLY
11D
Bear with too-hot porridge
PAPA
12D
Lacking free time
BUSY
17D
Crow’s ___
NEST
18D
Tirade
RANT
21D
Workplace oversight agency
OSHA
22D
Lose sleep (over)
FRET
23D
Add fuel to the ___
FIRE
24D
Brandenburg composer
BACH
25D
Mongolia’s continent
ASIA
26D
George Bernard ___
SHAW
27D
Top of landscape painting
SKY
30D
“Garfield” dog
ODIE
31D
Kenya’s capital
NAIROBI
32D
Use a cleaver
CHOP
37D
Slightly open
AJAR
38D
“Bad Boys” star Will
SMITH
39D
“The ___ have it”
AYES
41D
Flock females
EWES
42D
Evens’ opposites
ODDS
43D
Fictional bear in Hundred Acre Wood
POOH
44D
Handmade goods website
ETSY
45D
___-away zone
TOW
46D
“With no further ___ …”
ADO
47D
Cargo weight unit
TON