4/24/24 Answer Crosswords With Friends

4/24/24
Wayback Wednesday

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1A
Container for pickles or jam
Jar

4A
Church bench
Pew

7A
Not hard as a ripe peach
Soft

11A
Ripen
Age

12A
Director DuVernay
Ava

13A
___ down (demolished)
Tore

14A
Anaconda cousin
Boa

15A
Like paint that hasn’t yet dried
Wet

16A
Sign in a shop window
Open

17A
Hillbilly Elegy actress who played Vice President Kathryn Bennett in Air Force One: 2 wds.
Glenn Close

20A
Boob tubes
Tvs

21A
Sock ___ (1950s-style dance party)
Hop

22A
___ vera (succulent plant)
Aloe

24A
___ Not Hook Up (2009 Kelly Clarkson hit): 2 wds.
I Do

25A
Pureed food for an infant
Pap

28A
Blade Runner actor who played President James Marshall in Air Force One: 2 wds.
Harrison Ford

31A
Muscles worked in sit-ups
Abs

32A
Journal for a Star Trek captain
Log

33A
Result of brainstorming
Idea

34A
Jaguar or lynx
Cat

35A
Rainbow’s shape
Arc

36A
Darkest Hour actor who played villain Egor Korshunov in Air Force One: 2 wds.
Gary Oldman

40A
Speaker of the House Johnson
Mike

41A
Embellish, as a resume
Pad

42A
Break down in tears
Sob

44A
Rival of Hertz and Thrifty
Avis

45A
Person in the Garden of Eden
Eve

46A
Prefix between bi- and quadri-
Tri

47A
Pops-a-___ (device for fixing damage in car bumpers)
Dent

48A
Down in the dumps emotionally
Sad

49A
What mattresses do over time
Sag

1D
Boxing hit
Jab

2D
Extremely eager
Agog

3D
Professionals that help buy and sell homes
Realtors

4D
Chess pieces that usually move just one space
Pawns

5D
Like numbers ending in 0
Even

6D
Protective pooch
Watchdog

7D
Squat down
Stoop

8D
Sorry my mistake!
Oops

9D
___ Guy (2021 Ryan Reynolds movie)
Free

10D
Five plus five
Ten

18D
They lived happily ___ after
Ever

19D
Waterfowl on Canadian $1 coins
Loon

22D
The light has dawned!
Aha

23D
Place for physics experiments
Lab

24D
Radioactive forms of elements or Springfield’s baseball team on The Simpsons
Isotopes

25D
Audio shows with downloadable episodes
Podcasts

26D
My lips ___ sealed
Are

27D
PalmPilot for example: Abbr.
PDA

29D
Now ___ me down to sleep …: 2 wds.
I Lay

30D
Like toned muscles
Firm

34D
Falcon ___ (1980s prime-time soap)
Crest

35D
Totaled (up)
Added

36D
Never Gonna ___ You Up (1987 song)
Give

37D
Similar (to)
Akin

38D
Molten stuff from a volcano
Lava

39D
Director and screenwriter Ephron
Nora

40D
Infuriated
Mad

43D
Monumental
Big