4/26/25 Answer Crosswords With Friends

4/26/25
Smartypants Saturday

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1A
Practice jabs and uppercuts
SPAR

5A
Animal threatened by the big bad wolf
PIG

8A
Barhopper’s alternative to a designated driver
CAB

11A
Hawaiian coffee district
KONA

12A
Creole vegetable
OKRA

14A
“What ___ we waiting for?”
ARE

15A
Abominable Snowman
YETI

16A
Wear and ___ (day-to-day damage)
TEAR

17A
Mass of salt water
SEA

18A
Embittered woman in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations
MISS HAVISHAM

21A
___-friendly (sustainable)
ECO

22A
Dutch cheese that tastes similar to Gouda
EDAM

23A
“___ just being dense here?”: 2 wds.
AM I

26A
State whose capital is Montgomery: Abbr.
ALA

28A
___ chic (rhyming term for atypically stylish fashion)
GEEK

31A
Villainous woman in A Tale of Two Cities
MADAME DEFARGE

35A
Ice skating leap
AXEL

36A
___-Cat (winter vehicle that runs on tracks)
SNO

37A
Unfathomably vast time
EON

38A
Biblical ark builder
NOAH

41A
Stick out
JUT

43A
Title woman in Dickens novel (debtors’ prison)
LITTLE DORRIT

48A
Darth Vader’s nickname as a youth
ANI

49A
Animal hunted for food
PREY

50A
Nasty smell
ODOR

52A
Big container that beer is brewed in
VAT

53A
Amount between “none” and “all”
SOME

54A
Comedian whose autobiography is Leading With My Chin
LENO

55A
“___ port in a storm”
ANY

56A
Move the head in agreement
NOD

57A
Installed, as carpeting
LAID

1D
Where satellites travel
SKY

2D
Limerick, for one
POEM

3D
Not in favor of: Prefix
ANTI

4D
Lift up
RAISE

5D
Big pit in a road
POTHOLE

6D
Furniture retailer with an indoor playground called Småland
IKEA

7D
Burial location
GRAVE

8D
Luxurious sweater material.
CASHMERE

9D
Gray ___ (something that’s not cut-and-dried)
AREA

10D
A gymnast might balance on it
BEAM

13D
Greatly lacking in rainfall
ARID

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19D
Con artist’s hoax
SCAM

20D
Lengthy story encompassing multiple generations, say
SAGA

23D
Reddit session where famous people answer questions: Abbr.
AMA

24D
Formula One champion Verstappen
MAX

25D
Secret ___ (Bruce Wayne, for Batman)
IDENTITY

27D
They play on screens in taxis
ADS

29D
Pride in oneself
EGO

30D
Jennings who writes Junior Genius Guides
KEN

32D
Gobs (of): 2 wds.
ALOT

33D
Found pleasurable
ENJOYED

34D
Number of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
FOUR

39D
European mountain range that’s about 750 miles long
ALPS

40D
Great blue wading bird
HERON

42D
Fairy-tale character who might live in a cave
TROLL

43D
What “the floor is,” in a kids’ game
LAVA

44D
“___ ideal world …”: 2 wds.
INAN

45D
Performer’s audition tape
DEMO

46D
“That seems like a bad ___”
IDEA

47D
Nobel- and Pulitzer-winning author Morrison
TONI

51D
Hot ___ (souped-up car)
ROD