12/9/20 Answer Crosswords With Friends

12/9/20
Wayback Wednesday

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1A
Grains in a horse’s feedbag
Oats

5A
Person who fills in for a sick teacher, for short
Sub

8A
A blast from the ____
Past

12A
Sandwich rolled in a soft tortilla
Trac

13A
School group with the slogan “Every child. One voice”: Abbr.
PTA

14A
Member of a South American empire of yore
Inca

15A
Woman who gave birth to Superman
Lara

16A
Pantyhose problem called a “ladder” in England
Run

17A
New Orleans Pelicans head coach ____ Van Gundy
Stan

18A
Actress who played Cinnamon Carter on the 1966-1973 series “Mission: Impossible”: 2 wds.
Barbara Bain

21A
Lisda of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”
Rinna

22A
With 35-Across, actor who played Rollin Hand on “Mission: Impossible”
Martin

26A
Pertaining to Peru’s mountain range
Andean

31A
Scrub at the last minute, as a rocket launch
Abort

32A
____ Moore (canned beef stew brand)
Dinty

33A
“Three’s Company” actress Joyce
Dewitt

35A
See 22-Across
Landau

36A
Recline atop: 2 wds.
Lie On

38A
Actor who played Jim Phelps on “Mission: Impossible”: 2 wds.
Peter Graves

44A
Opposite of hate
Love

45A
Number on a birthday cake
Age

46A
Individual Retrement ____: Abbr.
Acct

48A
Summit
Apex

49A
“You can’t ____ thing about it!”: 2 wds.
Do A

50A
Leader of Iran before 1979
Shah

51A
“My mind ___ blank”
Went

52A
Class taken by some immigrants to the USA: Abbr.
ESL

53A
Carryall bag often made of canvas
Tote

1D
Harry Potter’s pet Hedwig, for one
Owl

2D
Ethnic identity for most Saudis
Arab

3D
Amber Benson’s role on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”
Tara

4D
Train for a boxing match
Spar

5D
Common ankle injury
Sprain

6D
180 change in direction: Hyph.
Uturn

7D
Yellow-skinned fruit
Banana

8D
Italian city with a famous tower whose construction began in 1173
Pisa

9D
Against: Prefix
Anti

10D
Pass across a bar code reader
Scan

11D
Almond-colored
Tan

19D
Peanut ___ sugary confection that’s cracked into shards)
Brittle

20D
Western kerchief
Bandana

22D
The ___ Hatter (Lewis Carroll character)
Mad

23D
Honest ___ (nickname of the 16th US president)
Abe

24D
Part of a sudoku puzzle
Row

25D
Prefix for “ceratops” or “angle”
Tri

27D
Earsplitting noise
Dinty

28D
Finish
End

29D
___ futre date (some time to come): 2 wds.
At A

30D
Big Apple school where Ross Geller was a professor, on “Friends”: Abbr.
NYU

34D
Angry rant
Tirade

35D
French costmetics company that owns Garnier and Redken
Loreal

37D
Round waffles sold by Kellogg’s
Eggos

38D
The only Catholic Church rank higher than cardinal
Pope

39D
Fifty-fifty
Even

40D
Send a message from a phone
Text

41D
Expansive, as a desert
Vast

42D
Reverberate
Echo

43D
“Shoo!”
Scat

44D
Attorney’s field
Law

47D
Word that appears in ten of this puzzle’s clues
The