12/21/17 Answer Daily Celebrity Crossword

12/21/17
Top 40 Thursday

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1A
Mysterious sights in the night sky: Abbr.
UFOs

5A
Black-and-yellow insect
Wasp

9A
Stetson, for example
Hat

12A
Soy ____ (nondairy alternative)
Milk

13A
Take a long walk along a trail
Hike

14A
“At Home With ___ Sedaris” (truTV series)
Amy

15A
Bird of ____ (hawk or eagle, for example)
Prey

16A
“Don’t count ____!”: 2 wds.
On It

17A
Actor Cariou of “Blue Bloods”
Len

18A
Artist whose “Rockstar” debuted at #2 in October 2017: 2 wds.
Post Malone

21A
Hoodwinked
Duped

24A
___ carte menu: 2 wds.
A La

25A
Main Street, ____ (Disneyland section)
USA

26A
Soul singer Redding
Otis

29A
Vague feeling, for short
Vibe

33A
Artist whose “Humble” debuted at #2 in April 2017: 2 wds.
Kendrick Lamar

36A
Therefore, to mathematicians
Ergo

37A
Flat-topped landform in the Southwest
Mesa

38A
Letters before an alias
Aka

39A
Female deer
Doe

41A
Payments to Uncle Sam
Taxes

43A
Artist whose “Cold Water” debuted at #2 in August 2016: 2 wds.
Major Lazer

48A
Baseball’s Diamondbacks, on a scoreboard: Abbr.
Ari

49A
What the little Dutch boy stuck his finger in, in a kid’s story
Dike

50A
Spill the beans
Blab

54A
What a celebrity signs an autograph with
Pen

55A
Mireille who starred in “The Killing”
Enos

56A
Guru who dies in “Return of the Jedi”
Yoda

57A
Lisa Simpson’s musical instrument, for short
Sax

58A
What a tenant pays every month
Rent

59A
___ machine (gambling device)
Slot

1D
“Kill the ___!” (angry cry at a baseball stadium)
Ump

2D
Type of evergreen tree
Fir

3D
Shout at a Mexican soccer game
Ole

4D
Microsoft-owned video-chatting program
Skype

5D
“___ your daddy?”
Whos

6D
“___ No Mountain High Enough” (Diana Ross song)
Aint

7D
Stereotypical face coverings for bank robbers: 2 wds.
Ski Masks

8D
Colorful part of a flower
Petal

9D
Ring over a saint
Halo

10D
How a congregation might respond to a pastor
Amen

11D
“Spider-Man: Homecoming” actress Daly
Tyne

19D
Stinky smell
Odor

20D
Volcano’s output
Lava

21D
School that has a long-standing rivalry with North Carolina
Duke

22D
Laptop owner
User

23D
Sharp twinge
Pang

27D
Diagram that shows the chronology of important events
Timeline

28D
What keeps a cooler cool
Ice

30D
Huge-screen movie format
IMAX

31D
Make a cake
Bake

32D
Statistics for Cy Young Award candidates: Abbr.
Eras

34D
Birdbrain, or an extinct bird
Dodo

35D
Behind schedule
Late

40D
Made-to-____ (not off-the-rack)
Order

42D
Fast food chain that offers curly fries and Jamocha shakes
Arbys

43D
Atlas pages
Maps

44D
Region
Area

45D
Something that causes bad luck
Jinx

46D
Singer of the 2006 #1 hit “I Wanna Love You”
Akon

47D
What’s grated from a citrus fruit’s peel
Zest

51D
“That’s too funny,” in a text
LOL

52D
Hustle and bustle
Ado

53D
Black animal that might hang from a cave ceiling
Bat