4/16/26 Answer Crosswords With Friends

4/16/26
Top 40 Thursday

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1A
Hero sandwich
SUB

4A
Meat ___ (musician who costarred in “Fight Club”)
LOAF

8A
Talk a lot
GAB

11A
“In this day and ___ …”
AGE

12A
Italian fashion rival of Gucci and Prada
FENDI

13A
Bigheaded quality
EGO

14A
With 22-Across, #1 hit… (3 wds.)
THEFATEOF

16A
___ and then (occasionally)
NOW

17A
Muscles targeted by crunches
ABS

18A
Explosive letters
TNT

20A
Young female
GIRL

22A
See 14-Across
OPHELIA

26A
Vessel that might hold a late pet’s ashes
URN

27A
2026 Oscar nominee Fanning
ELLE

29A
“The Night the Lights ___ Out in Georgia”
WENT

30A
A watched one never boils, in a saying
POT

31A
Fountain drinks
SODAS

33A
Leader who launched China’s Cultural Revolution
MAO

34A
Word that can follow “home” or “Astro”
TURF

36A
Go after some trout, perhaps
FISH

37A
True crime author Rule
ANN

38A
#1 hit… whose title is an artificial gem
OPALITE

40A
What benzoyl peroxide sometimes treats
ACNE

42A
Religious woman in black and white
NUN

43A
Place to get pampered
SPA

44A
Trailways vehicle
BUS

46A
#10 hit… about celebrities getting ostracized
CANCELLED

52A
“What You Saying” rapper Lil ___ Vert
UZI

53A
2001-2006 spy series starring Jennifer Garner
ALIAS

54A
“I don’t ___ you anything!”
OWE

55A
On the ___ (precisely)
DOT

56A
Like the person at the front of a line
NEXT

57A
Tiny
WEE

1D
Posed for a portrait
SAT

2D
“That’s so terrible!”
UGH

3D
Insect with “bumble” and “honey” varieties
BEE

4D
Tennis serves that have to be redone
LETS

5D
Result of any positive number divided by itself
ONE

6D
“Much ___ About Nothing”
ADO

7D
Place between fourth and sixth
FIFTH

8D
Courteous guy
GENTLEMAN

9D
Long, long ___ (in the past)
AGO

10D
Respond to an audience’s applause
BOW

12D
Stories written by Aesop
FABLES

15D
Not at all close
FAR

19D
Original
NEW

20D
Place together into categories
GROUP

21D
Still on the way to a destination: 2 wds.
INTRANSIT

22D
“An ___ but a goodie”
OLDIE

23D
Green vegetables… served with carrots
PEAS

24D
Senseless
INANE

25D
“This must weigh ___!”: 2 wds.
A TON

26D
“I’ll leave it ___ you”: 2 wds.
UP TO

28D
Place for hay bales in a barn
LOFT

32D
Rhombuses and rectangles, for example
SHAPES

35D
Seasonal malady
FLU

39D
Like Machu Picchu… Peruvian sites
INCAN

41D
___ State Fullerton
CAL

43D
Sing using nonsense syllables
SCAT

44D
Flower-to-be
BUD

45D
Three-time Emmy winner Aduba
UZO

47D
Newcastle Brown ___ (British beer)
ALE

48D
Say “no” to, as a proposed idea
NIX

49D
Opposite of high
LOW

50D
First mammal to be cloned
EWE

51D
Actress Ruby or Sandra
DEE