2/14/26 Answer Crosswords With Friends

2/14/26
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1A
Chocolaty coffee beverage
MOCHA

6A
Cores of corn ears
COBS

10A
Drag with difficulty
LUG

13A
Man who’s getting married
GROOM

14A
Shape of the “American Idol” logo
OVAL

15A
“This American Life” host Glass
IRA

16A
Cantaloupe or casaba, for example
MELON

17A
Former late-night host Jay
LENO

18A
___ foo young (Chinese dish)
EGG

19A
2024 Ann Cleeves mystery (teenager is suspect)
THEDARKWIVES

22A
Actor Butterfield of “Your Christmas or Mine?”
ASA

23A
Personal ID with nine numbers: Abbr.
SSN

24A
Accessed by tapping a smartphone screen
APP

27A
“The 411” in slang, for short
INFO

30A
Mad enough to ___ nails
SPIT

34A
2023 Ann Cleeves mystery (victim is a sailor)
THERAGINGSTORM

38A
Prefix before “sodium glutamate”
MONO

39A
Italy’s shape, roughly
BOOT

40A
Chest muscle a weightlifter might “pop”
PEC

41A
___ -tip (cut of beef)
TRI

44A
Nickname for a medical pro
DOC

46A
2021 Ann Cleeves mystery (artists’ colony)
THEHERONSCRY

52A
Coating for a wheel of Parmesan or Edam
WAX

53A
Manage somehow
COPE

54A
Bottoms of boats
KEELS

57A
Adjective suffix for “fest” or “mass”
IVE

58A
Insects that might be red or black
ANTS

59A
Online commerce: Hyph.
E-TAIL

60A
Consonants in a game of tic-tac-toe
XES

61A
Quiet sound meaning “Hey, you!”
PSST

62A
Kentucky ___ (Triple Crown race)
DERBY

1D
Amazon ___ Studios
MGM

2D
State bordering Idaho to the west: Abbr.
ORE

3D
Young male horse
COLT

4D
Big kerfuffle: Hyph.
HOOHA

5D
Loss of memory
AMNESIA

6D
Brown soda
COLA

7D
“The honeymoon is ___”
OVER

8D
Places to open checking accounts
BANKS

9D
Loses speed
SLOWS

10D
“Asteroid City” actor Schreiber
LIEV

11D
Strong craving
URGE

12D
Comedian’s jokes
GAGS

20D
“Well, darn!”
DANG

21D
The “I” in “MIT”: Abbr.
INST

24D
Place to get walking-around money: Abbr.
ATM

25D
Vietnamese soup with rice noodles
PHO

26D
Used for writing longhand
PEN

28D
Minor untruth
FIB

29D
Multimedia artist Yoko
ONO

31D
Justin Timberlake’s music genre
POP

32D
Pique
IRE

33D
Cable channel owned by Showtime
TMC

35D
Actor Tim from “Pulp Fiction”
ROTH

36D
Mythological deities
GODS

37D
Fully supplied with inventory
STOCKED

42D
Synopsis
RECAP

43D
Wrinkle-removing appliances
IRONS

45D
The largest of Greece’s islands
CRETE

46D
Crispy candy bar variety
TWIX

47D
“You can’t ___ your cake and eat it too”
HAVE

48D
Former romantic partners
EXES

49D
___ out of (chooses not to take part)
OPTS

50D
Home for robins or cuckoos
NEST

51D
Period between anniversaries
YEAR

55D
Ad-___ (go off-script)
LIB

56D
Crafty
SLY