12/29/24 Answer Crosswords With Friends

12/29/24
People Sunday

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1A
___ on the gas (speed up)
STEP

5A
___ school (place for a future doctor, for short)
MED

8A
Tune in “Tosca” or “Carmen”
ARIA

12A
Striped symbol outside a barbershop
POLE

13A
Give the ___ (fire from a job)
AXE

14A
Poke around intrusively
SNOOP

15A
Help to commit a felony
ABET

16A
GPS screen
MAP

17A
Create art with watercolors or oils, say
PAINT

18A
“Scream” actress who studied ballet as a child: 2 wds.
NEVE CAMPBELL

21A
Statistic for a softball pitcher: Abbr.
ERA

22A
Slippery, as a winter sidewalk
ICY

23A
Swimmer Thorpe who won five Olympic gold medals
IAN

25A
Monks in Tibetan monasteries
LAMAS

29A
Gluttony and lust, for example
SINS

33A
“Black Swan” actress who studied ballet as a child: 2 wds.
NATALIE PORTMAN

36A
Oohs and ___
AAHS

37A
Steamy room where you might wear only a towel
SAUNA

38A
Vietnamese noodle soup
PHO

39A
Nickname for UC Berkeley
CAL

41A
“Barbie” actress Issa
RAE

43A
“Vanilla Sky” actress who studied ballet as a child: 2 wds.
PENELOPE CRUZ

49A
“Ted Lasso” reporter Crimm, from the Independent
TRENT

51A
“I’ve cracked it!”
AHA

52A
Like a soft, orange papaya
RIPE

53A
Groups of zebras
HERDS

54A
Title for Isaac Newton
SIR

55A
Wolfs down
EATS

56A
Second-largest birds on Earth
EMUS

57A
Very young child
TOT

58A
Place to insert a token into a pinball machine
SLOT

1D
Have a short attention ___
SPAN

2D
Start of Hamlet’s famous soliloquy: 2 wds.
TO BE

3D
Where K falls in the alphabet
ELEVENTH

4D
Piper who picked a peck of pickled peppers
PETER

5D
“___ Said Knock You Out” (LL Cool J song)
MAMA

6D
Important test
EXAM

7D
Johnny who played Captain Jack Sparrow
DEPP

8D
Expert in an investment firm or on a sports show
ANALYST

9D
Disturb, as sediment
ROIL

10D
“Am ___ the right track?”: 2 wds.
I ON

11D
Well-suited
APT

14D
On ___ (without a firm deal)
SPEC

19D
Contact by telephone
CALL

20D
Shaggy animal featured on the North Dakota state quarter
BISON

23D
Once ___ blue moon: 2 wds.
IN A

24D
Baseball level with such teams as the Salt Lake Bees and the Albuquerque Isotopes
AAA

26D
Numbered pathway in a supermarket
AISLE

27D
Give ___ second: 2 wds.
ME A

28D
“The Simpsons” character who says “Thank you, come again!”
APU

30D
Margarine brand with a crown logo
IMPERIAL

31D
“Uh-uh”
NAH

32D
___-Caps (movie candy brand)
SNO

34D
Heads upward
ASCENDS

35D
Like a blue moon or white peacock
RARE

40D
Insects that live in mounds
ANTS

42D
Units of measure for national parks
ACRES

43D
South American country that Paddington Bear came from
PERU

44D
At the back of the pack
LAST

45D
Neil Armstrong’s home state
OHIO

46D
Line made by a comb
PART

47D
“It’s ___ you” (“No preference”): 2 wds.
UP TO

48D
Part of a lemon used to make the liqueur limoncello
ZEST

49D
Savor ___ moment
THE

50D
Alternative rock band whose first album was “Murmur” in 1983
REM