12/3/22 Answer Crosswords With Friends

12/3/22
Smartypants Saturday

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1A
Performs a basic math operation
Adds

5A
What a traveler might refer to for directions
Map

8A
At half-___ (how flags are sometimes flown)
Mast

12A
Italy’s largest automaker
Fiat

13A
Homophone of ail
Ale

14A
Quaint version of Oh rats!
Alas

15A
Mail-order supplier in many Looney Tunes cartoons
Acme

16A
Digit often used to test water temperature in a swimming pool
Toe

17A
What Italians call their capital
Roma

18A
Belgian surrealist who created The Son of Man a painting where a green apple hides a man’s face: 2 wds.
Rene Magritte

21A
Honoree on the third Sunday in June
Dad

22A
___-fi (movie genre)
Sci

23A
Type of poem that has rarely been used in English since Keats
Ode

26A
___ Kippur War (1973 conflict)
Yom

28A
___ your meal! (waiter’s remark)
Enjoy

32A
Sister company of Porsche and Bentley
Audi

34A
See 27-Down
Ray

36A
State whose land became part of the US in the Louisiana Purchase
Iowa

37A
Knights of the ___ Table
Round

39A
Rejections
Nos

41A
Jade or garnet for example
Gem

42A
Nourished
Fed

44A
Korean maker of the Rio hatchback
Kia

46A
Spanish surrealist who created The Persistence of Memory a painting with melted clocks: 2 wds.
Salvador Dali

52A
___ Verde National Park (attraction in Colorado)
Mesa

53A
South American city where Ipanema is for short
Rio

54A
Leave off a list
Omit

55A
Annual physical for example
Exam

56A
Malibu Barbie’s skin tone
Tan

57A
Cable series for which Billy Porter won an Emmy
Pose

58A
Over-the-top publicity
Hype

59A
___-mo replay
Slo

60A
Streetcar
Tram

1D
Worship from ___ (secretly crush on)
Afar

2D
Chop into small cubes
Dice

3D
___ Yankees (1958 movie musical)
Damn

4D
Knight’s valiant horse
Steed

5D
Competitor in a bullfight
Matador

6D
Sleep like ___: 2 wds.
A Log

7D
Jury of one’s ___
Peers

8D
007’s favorite cocktail
Martini

9D
That leaves ___ to be desired: 2 wds.
A lot

10D
Be on the ___ wavelength
Same

11D
Airport screening group: Abbr.
TSA

19D
National Burger Month in the US
May

20D
Most of Antarctica’s surface
Ice

23D
Blade in a lifeboat
Oar

24D
Musical twosome
Duo

25D
Internet suffix whose earliest users included University of California Berkeley
Edu

27D
With 34-Across American surrealist who created Ingres’s Violin a photo of a woman resembling a violin from the back
Man

29D
Moderate running pace
Jog

30D
I ___ you one! (Thanks for the favor!)
Owe

31D
Orange vegetable
Yam

33D
Intensify as passions or tensions
Inflame

35D
Singer who funded Central Park’s Strawberry Fields: 2 wds.
Yokoono

38D
The Newsroom actor Patel
Dev

40D
___ Lewis Hamilton (British race car driver knighted in 2021)
Sir

43D
Game on many pub walls
Darts

45D
Provide with a forever home as a shelter pup
Adopt

46D
Da Ya Think I’m ___? (Rod Stewart hit)
Sexy

47D
Stat!: Abbr.
ASAP

48D
Feature of a rotary phone
Dial

49D
Love in Lisbon
Amor

50D
Basketball Hall of Famer ___ Leslie
Lisa

51D
Line-___ veto
Item

52D
Eh it’s fine whatever
Meh