4/21/18 Answer Crosswords With Friends

4/21/18
Smartypants Saturday

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. 4/21/18 Smartypants Saturday No Spoiler

1A
Measurement signified by the first number in a dressmaker’s “38-26-36”
Bust

5A
____ a precedent
Set

8A
___-hop (Gucci Mane’s genre)
Hip

11A
Follows orders
Obeys

13A
It’s used to move a lifeboat
Oar

14A
Lack of modesty
Ego

15A
Yo-Yo Ma’s instrument
Cello

16A
“Born in the ____” (Springsteen hit)
USA

17A
Front-___ seats
Row

18A
Former Pennsylvania senator who changed his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican then back to Democrat: 2 wds.
Arlen Specter

21A
Harry and Hermione’s friend at Hogwarts
Ron

22A
Sign of the lion
Leo

23A
President during the Cuban Missile Crisis: Abbr.
JFK

26A
Cut the lawn
Mow

28A
“The Voice” coach Levine
Adam

32A
Former North Caroline senator who changed her party affiliation from Democrat to Republican: 2 wds.
Elizabeth Dole

36A
Go the way of the ____ (become extinct)
Dodo

37A
Suffocating snake
Boa

38A
Number on which the decimal system is based
Ten

39A
Signal approval by moving your head up and down
Nod

42A
George Peppard’s costar on “The A-Team”: 2 wds.
Mr T

44A
Former Connecticut senator who changed his party affiliation from Democrat to Independent: 2 wds.
Joe Lie Berman

50A
Sports team’s supporter
Fan

51A
“American ____!” (animated series on TBS)
Dad

52A
“This Is Us” star Mandy
Moore

53A
Poison ____ (“Batman” villain)
Ivy

54A
Country whose second-largest city is Manchester: Abbr.
Eng

55A
Kinds or types
Sorts

56A
April 15 payment
Tax

57A
Movie for which Jamie Fox won an Oscar
Ray

58A
Little annoyance
Pest

1D
____ Raton, Florida
Boca

2D
Ridesharing enterprise whose name comes from the German for “above”
Uber

3D
Vend
Sell

4D
Actor Perry who created the character Madea
Tyler

5D
Chicken noodle ___
Soup

6D
Stand for a painter’s canvas
Easel

7D
Country singer Adkins
Trace

8D
“I’ve had it up to ____!”
Here

9D
Russian composer Stravinsky
Igor

10D
“Boom Boom _____” (#1 hit for the Black Eyed Peas)
Pow

12D
Northern California wine-producing county
Sonoma

19D
Someone who’s snooty
Snob

20D
Frog’s bumpier relative
Toad

23D
Name shared by lead characters on “The Beverly Hillbillies” and “The West Wing”
Jed

24D
“Low” rapper ____ Rida
Flo

25D
Young goat
Kid

27D
Spider’s silky creation
Web

29D
Punctuation that’s part of every URL
Dot

30D
Canada Dry ginger ____
Ale

31D
“Of Mice and ____” (Steinbeck novel)
Men

33D
“The Twilight ____” (spooky 1959-1964 TV series)
Zone

34D
Something that Lara Croft would raid
Tomb

35D
Palace rooms guarded by eunuchs
Harems

40D
Not as young
Older

41D
Subject of Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind 1997”
Diana

43D
Boy Scout group
Troop

44D
Indonesian island that’s a slang word for coffee
Java

45D
Semiprecious black stone
Onyx

46D
somewhat anxious
Edgy

47D
Do ____ harm than good
More

48D
____& Literature (Trivial Pursuit category)
Arts

49D
What a bird lays egg in
Nest

50D
In shape
Fit