12/8/22 Answer Crosswords With Friends

12/8/22
Top 40 Thursday

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1A
Word that goes before corn and after soda
Pop

4A
Roker Pacino and Sharpton
Als

7A
Chinese breed of dog
Chow

11A
Angsty music genre
Emo

12A
Prefix for smoking or binary
Non

13A
Country whose capital is Santiago
Chile

14A
TV sports correspondent Paolantonio
Sal

15A
Kill ___ birds with one stone
Two

16A
Really didn’t like
Hated

17A
With 42-Across 2016 Calvin Harris single featuring Rihanna: 3 wds.
This Is What

20A
Play a character
Act

21A
Listening organ
Ear

22A
Government group that processes Form 1040s: Abbr.
IRS

25A
Serpent-like swimmer
Eel

27A
Use a shovel
Dig

28A
British rapper best known for Paper Planes
Mia

29A
2014 Calvin Harris single
Summer

32A
2012 Calvin Harris single featuring Ne-Yo: 2 wds.
Lets Go

34A
Knives Out star ___ de Armas
Ana

35A
Jack Quaid to Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan
Son

37A
___-resistant (less likely to decay like some wood)
Rot

38A
___ Quixote
Don

39A
Glide down the slopes
Ski

40A
Piña colada liquor
Rum

42A
See 17-Across: 3 wds.
You Came For

46A
The Land of the Rising Sun
Japan

49A
I’m ___ budget: 2 wds.
On A

50A
Questlove’s big hairstyle for short
Fro

51A
October birthstones
Opals

52A
TV dance-competition judge Goodman
Len

53A
Clairvoyance: Abbr.
Esp

54A
Pretty Woman star Richard
Gere

55A
Female animal whose name reads the same forward and backward
Ewe

56A
Waitress at Paddy’s Pub on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Dee

1D
Annoying person
Pest

2D
___ Steaks (mail-order company based in Nebraska)
Omaha

3D
Male officer in law enforcement
Police Man

4D
___-inflammatory
Anti

5D
Days’ coldest temperatures
Lows

6D
Fell in cold white flakes
Snowed

7D
Shoot the breeze
Chat

8D
What a single or double is in baseball
Hit

9D
Cry of support for a matador
Ole

10D
Got hitched
Wed

13D
It powers up a cell phone
Charger

18D
Long part of a wineglass
Stem

19D
___ Caesar! (2016 Josh Brolin movie)
Hail

22D
Couldn’t eat another bite!: 2 wds.
Im Stuffed

23D
Big ___ (trucker’s vehicle)
Rig

24D
University of ___ Paulo (school with almost 100 000 students)
Sao

26D
Things learned at school or in life
Lessons

29D
Opposite of happy
Sad

30D
Game with a Wild Draw Four card
Uno

31D
Streaming media device
Roku

33D
___ open (ripped as an envelope)
Tore

36D
Nailed It! host Byer
Nicole

41D
Type of code with dots and dashes
Morse

42D
Alphabetically last Ivy League school
Yale

43D
Baby needs ___ pair of shoes (gambler’s comment): 2 wds.
A New

44D
Zebra’s neck hair
Mane

45D
It’s pulled in tug-of-war
Rope

46D
Run at a casual pace
Jog

47D
Gorilla for one
Ape

48D
Golf course’s target score
Par