12/11/25 Answer Crosswords With Friends

12/11/25
Top 40 Thursday

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1A
Hastily study for midterms
CRAM

5A
___ and pans
POTS

9A
Ring loudly, like cathedral bells
PEAL

13A
___-Cola
COCA

14A
Surrounding glow
AURA

15A
Scarce
RARE

16A
Piece of wood in an Adirondack chair
SLAT

17A
Predator’s target
PREY

18A
Rankles
IRKS

19A
“Industry Baby” rapper who signed a record deal after “Old Town Road” went viral on TikTok in 2019: 3 wds.
LILNASX

21A
Company that long provided dial-up Internet service
AOL

22A
Frying liquid
OIL

23A
Archer’s projectiles
ARROWS

26A
Official mandate
EDICT

29A
The Aegean and the Baltic
SEAS

31A
“The Golden Girls” star Arthur
BEA

32A
“Boy’s a Liar Pt. 2” singer who got a record deal after “Break It Off” went viral on TikTok in 2021
PINKPANTHERESS

35A
Belief system’s suffix
ISM

36A
Bygone Apple music player
IPOD

37A
Birds build them
NESTS

38A
Multiple-___ test
CHOICE

40A
___-Atlantic (region including Maryland)
MID

41A
Sound of disapproval
TSK

42A
“Anxiety” rapper who got a record deal after “Yucky Blucky Fruitcake” went viral on TikTok in 2021
DOECHII

46A
Dump water overboard
BAIL

48A
Competitor of Pampers
LUVS

49A
___ Asia (Japan and South Korea’s region)
EAST

51A
Relative of a bassoon
OBOE

52A
“Beware the ___ of March!”
IDES

53A
Water, in Spain
AGUA

54A
Comfortable rooms
DENS

55A
Refuse to grant
DENY

56A
Blockhead
DOPE

1D
Shares an email with: Abbr.
CCS

2D
Sushi serving
ROLL

3D
Antioxidant-rich (and vowel-rich) berry
ACAI

4D
Legal drama starring Kathy Bates
MATLOCK

5D
Relating to Leo XIV
PAPAL

6D
Not just yours or mine
OURS

7D
Short-armed dino: 2 wds., abbr.
TREX

8D
“Smile when you ___ that”
SAY

9D
Without ___ notice (all of a sudden)
PRIOR

10D
Common places for piercings
EARLOBES

11D
Biblical boat with pairs of animals
ARK

12D
Gibson ___ Paul (type of guitar)
LES

20D
Criticize the small stuff
NITPICK

21D
“___ and Old Lace” (Cary Grant movie)
ARSENIC

23D
Sound that may follow “ooh”
AAH

24D
Left side of most maps
WEST

25D
Bratty back talk
SASS

26D
Cast-of-thousands film
EPIC

27D
Satellite TV receiver
DISH

28D
Not standing still: 2 wds.
INMOTION

29D
___-cone (treat made from flavored ice)
SNO

30D
When a plane is due to leave: Abbr.
ETD

33D
Clumsy brute, or a jungle animal
APE

34D
Prince Harry or Lucille Ball, hair-wise
REDHEAD

39D
Archipelago parts
ISLES

40D
Unkempt
MESSY

42D
“Bro!”
DUDE

43D
___-roasted chicken
OVEN

44D
Scheming character in “Othello”
IAGO

45D
“I don’t know which end ___”: 2 wds.
ISUP

46D
Physique, for short
BOD

47D
Presidential nickname Honest ___
ABE

48D
Top of a teakettle
LID

50D
___-kwon do (Summer Olympics event)
TAE