10/22/26 Answer Crosswords With Friends

10/22/26
Top 40 Thursday

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1A
Stand around expectantly
WAIT

5A
___ every trick in the book (try everything)
USE

8A
Takes the bait
BITES

13A
Colossal
HUGE

14A
Longtime maker of TVs and radios
RCA

15A
Nut with a cap
ACORN

16A
Appliance for removing wrinkles
IRON

17A
Club in a softball game
BAT

18A
Complete
TOTAL

19A
Swedish singer on the 2025 remix of the PinkPantheress song “Stateside”: 2 wds.
ZARA LARSSON

22A
Actor Platt or Stiller
BEN

23A
Bee, beetle, or butterfly
INSECT

27A
Viral disease covered in the book “The Hot Zone”
EBOLA

30A
Try to get browner skin
TAN

32A
Neighbor of Sweden and Finland: Abbr.
NOR

33A
2016 hit by 19-Across and MNEK whose title suggests remembering someone forever: 3 wds.
NEVER FORGET YOU

37A
Early rapper Kool Moe ___
DEE

38A
Area for parking cars
LOT

39A
Not sleeping
AWAKE

40A
Big step
STRIDE

43A
“The Name of the Rose” author Umberto
ECO

44A
2026 hit by 19-Across whose title suggests living in constant daylight during a Swedish summer: 2 wds.
MIDNIGHT SUN

50A
“Frankenstein” star Oscar
ISAAC

53A
Body part with a lobe and a canal
EAR

54A
“That’s terrible news!”: 2 wds.
OH NO

55A
Join with the traffic on a highway
MERGE

56A
“The Gilded ___” (HBO period drama)
AGE

57A
Film ___ (genre of “Double Indemnity”)
NOIR

58A
Walked back and forth
PACED

59A
Become spoiled
ROT

60A
“At Last” singer James
ETTA

1D
Cheez ___ (dip made by Kraft)
WHIZ

2D
Spiritual radiance
AURA

3D
Grammy-winning 2019 album from Tyler, the Creator
IGOR

4D
Defensible, like an argument
TENABLE

5D
City-related
URBAN

6D
Mark from an old surgery
SCAR

7D
Nibbles on
EATS

8D
Stick held by an orchestra conductor
BATON

9D
Images on desktop screens
ICONS

10D
Very young kid
TOT

11D
Section of a historical timeline
ERA

12D
Show whose featured players include Jane Wickline and Ashley Padilla: Abbr.
SNL

20D
Tragic Shakespearean king
LEAR

21D
Make music with the voice
SING

24D
Irish performer of “Only Time” and “May It Be”
ENYA

25D
Make a meal
COOK

26D
Authentic and real
TRUE

27D
Wraps up
ENDS

28D
Reddish-purple vegetable
BEET

29D
Higher than
OVER

30D
“Don’t be ___ sure”
TOO

31D
Picasso’s field
ART

34D
Ran away
FLED

35D
Apiece
EACH

42D
Chopped into small cubes, like onions
TWO TONE

43D
White heron
IMAGE

45D
Opposite of far
DICED

46D
Villain in “Othello”
EGRET

47D
One-gulp serving of liquor
NEAR

48D
The Big ___ (nickname of former pitcher Randy Johnson)
IAGO

49D
Romance writer Roberts
SHOT

50D
Mischievous child
UNIT

51D
What a shore borders
NORA

52D
Section of a circle
IMP