8/2/25 Answer Crosswords With Friends

8/2/25
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1A
Part of the body between the neck and waist
TORSO

6A
Outdoor meal with a grill, for short
BBQ

9A
Tuscan city with a leaning tower
PISA

13A
___ it up (celebrate noisily)
WHOOP

14A
Baseball Hall of Famer Brock
LOU

15A
Easy-Bake ___ (Hasbro toy)
OVEN

16A
Completely silly
INANE

17A
Santa ___ (city in Orange County, California)
ANA

18A
Status of an email you’ve already looked at
READ

19A
“Vision in White” romance novelist and J.D. Robb pseudonym
NORA ROBERTS

22A
Cloth used by a maid
RAG

23A
Tasteless and cheap-looking
TACKY

26A
Higher-___ (superiors at work)
UPS

29A
Room with Bunsen burners and beakers
LAB

32A
Person taking part in a heist
THIEF

34A
“Shopaholic” novels author and Madeleine Wickham pseudonym
SOPHIE KINSELLA

38A
“Bye,” in Barcelona
ADIOS

39A
In years past
AGO

40A
Past middle age
OLD

41A
Publicity ___ (staged marketing ploy)
STUNT

43A
“Industry Baby” rapper Lil ___ X
NAS

46A
“Carrie” author and Richard Bachman pseudonym
STEPHEN KING

52A
Measure equal to 16 fluid ounces
PINT

55A
Australian singer whose last name is Furler
SIA

56A
Hammer banged by a judge
GAVEL

57A
The most recent Pixar movie (as of this puzzle)
ELIO

58A
“Blue Bloods” actor Cariou
LEN

59A
Nevada or Nebraska, for example
STATE

60A
Blueprint
PLAN

61A
Inject into a conversation
ADD

62A
Feeling all keyed up
TENSE

1D
Be not quite 100% truthful
FIB

1D
Minnesota baseball player
TWIN

2D
“This seems bad!”: 2 wds.
OHNO

3D
Sound from Simba
ROAR

4D
Underwater detection system
SONAR

5D
Musical drama with tenors and sopranos
OPERA

6D
Divulge a secret
BLAB

7D
___-chilling (extremely scary)
BONE

8D
Unit that’s twice as large as 52-Across
QUART

9D
German auto company that makes the Macan SUV
PORSCHE

10D
“___ got something to confess …”
IVE

11D
“Manchester by the ___” (2016 Casey Affleck movie)
SEA

12D
Plus
AND

20D
Lewd look
OGLE

21D
Permanent designs on skin, for short
TATS

24D
Metric prefix meaning “1,000”
KILO

25D
Bellow
YELL

26D
“WWE SmackDown” cable channel
USA

27D
Tide detergent capsules
PODS

28D
Rotating cooking rod
SPIT

30D
Jaten Dimsdale, ___ Teddy Swims: Abbr.
AKA

31D
Huge
BIG

33D
Temporary craze
FAD

35D
Biggest city in Texas
HOUSTON

36D
“___ that always the way?”
ISNT

37D
“That’s ___ of your business!”
NONE

42D
Car company whose first model was the Roadster
TESLA

44D
Adolescent’s gloomy feeling
ANGST

45D
Piece of footwear for an ice dancer
SKATE

47D
The ___ Piper of Hamelin
PIED

48D
Word that can follow “helping” or “hour”
HAND

49D
“Kindergarten Cop” director Reitman
IVAN

50D
Brooklyn NBA team
NETS