10/3/26 Answer Crosswords With Friends

10/3/26
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1A
Low female voice
ALTO

5A
___ Stadium (former home of the Mets)
SHEA

9A
Notice on a clearance item’s tag: 2 wds.
AS IS

13A
Homophone of “barred”
BARD

14A
Foot treatment at a spa, for short
PEDI

15A
Butterfly cousin that’s repelled by cedar
MOTH

16A
Like items in secondhand stores
USED

17A
First Lady who appeared on “Sesame Street” in 2003: 2 wds.
LAURA BUSH

19A
TV show starring Jeremy Allen White that ended in June: 2 wds.
THE BEAR

21A
Director Guillermo ___ Toro
DEL

22A
Hill-building bug
ANT

23A
Someone who gets walked all over, metaphorically
DOORMAT

27A
Take to the skies
FLY

28A
Archery item with a string
BOW

29A
“___, captain” (affirmative answer from a sailor)
AYE

30A
First Lady who appeared on “Sesame Street” in 1993: 2 wds.
HILLARY CLINTON

35A
“Wicked: For Good” star Grande’s nickname
ARI

36A
“Definitely!”
YES

37A
Feel regret for
RUE

38A
Reduces the rank of, as a military officer
DEMOTES

41A
Neckwear at a drag show
BOA

42A
Winter malady
FLU

43A
Author’s alias: 2 wds.
PEN NAME

47A
First Lady who appeared on “Sesame Street” in 2022: 2 wds.
JILL BIDEN

51A
Participate in applause
CLAP

52A
Trendy berry
ACAI

53A
Took legal action against
SUED

54A
“Wyatt ___” (1994 Western movie)
EARP

55A
Widely shared Internet image
MEME

56A
Flowers that lend bitterness to beer
HOPS

57A
Gets off one’s feet
SITS

1D
Touch the edge of
ABUT

2D
Piece of eyelid hair
LASH

3D
Genealogy chart
TREE

4D
Quirky sort of person
ODDBALL

5D
Sound of a bursting paintball
SPLAT

6D
Detect sounds
HEAR

7D
Suffix in a UConn email address
EDU

8D
___ traffic controller
AIR

9D
Gem that might have a bug trapped inside
AMBER

10D
One-and-only true love
SOULMATE

11D
“___ hard to tell”
ITS

12D
“Quiet down!”
SHH

18D
Hullabaloo
ADO

20D
New Age singer from Ireland
ENYA

23D
Medical professionals, for short
DOCS

24D
Nocturnal bird
OWL

25D
Actress Edebiri
AYO

26D
Square root of 100
TEN

27D
Con artist’s swindle
FLIMFLAM

28D
Words of farewell
BYES

30D
“I guess you ___ to be there”
HAD

31D
Ill temper
IRE

32D
Pumpernickel, for example
RYE

33D
Curling ___ (hairstyling tool)
IRON

40D
Bath place
NUANCES

41D
Road curves
OLLIE

43D
Chirp from a small bird
TUB

44D
Jai ___ (court game)
BENDS

45D
Small store
PEEP

46D
Comic Mike with the 2026 Netflix special “Delusional”
ALAI

47D
Traffic slowdown
MART

48D
“Rocks,” in a cocktail
EPPS

49D
Suffix for “fool” or “amateur”
JAM

50D
Two-member group
ICE