1/24/19 Answer Crosswords With Friends

1/24/19
Top 40 Thursday

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1A
Something that Fidel Castro smoked
Cigar

6A
Turner who founded TBS and CNN
Ted

9A
On the ___ (running from police)
Lam

12A
Cosmetics brand owned by Estée Lauder
Aveda

13A
Hard to capture
Elusive

15A
If You Don’t Know Me ___ (Simply Red hit): 2 wds.
By Now

16A
2014 song by 5 Seconds of Summer featuring the refrain ‘Cause I’m not fine at all
Amnesia

17A
Fiery temper
Ire

18A
It’s the ___ I can do
Least

19A
2018 song by 5 Seconds of Summer that reached #1 in their home nation of Australia
Young Blood

24A
Consumer Reports doesn’t include them
Ads

25A
___ hug (embrace involving three or more people)
Group

26A
The Punisher star Bernthal
Jon

29A
Commit perjury
Lie

30A
Americans With Disabilities ___ (civil rights law since 1990)
Act

31A
What two halves amount to
One

32A
Electric guitar innovator ___ Paul
Les

33A
Oodles
Scads

35A
Sounds delicious!
Yum

36A
With 42-Across 2014 debut single by 5 Seconds of Summer: 3 wds.
She Looks So

38A
Cry of delight: 2 wds.
Oh Boy

41A
Informer to a mafioso
Rat

42A
See 36-Across
Perfect

45A
Refreshingly cool as weather
Brisk

48A
Betrayal of one’s country
Treason

49A
Host of a variety show
Emcee

50A
Female swine
Sow

51A
Small child
Tot

52A
Liam Neeson action film with two sequels
Taken

1A
Cash ___ (Discovery Channel game show)
Cab

2A
Plant growing on some academic buildings
Ivy

3D
Brilliant people
Geniuses

4D
Decorate
Adorn

5D
Uncooked yellow ingredient in a protein shake: 2 wds.
Raw Egg

6D
Drink that might be herbal
Tea

7D
Street haunted by Freddy Krueger in movies
Elm

8D
Maker of tennis rackets and balls
Dunlop

9D
Saxophone-playing Simpson child
Lisa

10D
Competitor of Hertz and Enterprise
Avis

11D
Much of the food sliced at a deli
Meat

14D
What a sunflower grows from
Seed

19D
Southern version of you folks
Yall

20D
Yellow dog in Garfield
Odie

21D
Protective cover for an injured neck
Brace

22D
In the immediate area
Local

23D
Surpass in performance
Outdo

26D
Controller on an arcade game
Joystick

27D
Heavy burden
Onus

28D
Finding ___ (2003 Pixar film)
Nemo

33D
Most bashful
Shyest

34D
Nondairy frozen treat
Sorbet

36D
Place for a TV viewer to sit
Sofa

37D
Belief that behavior will be cosmically repaid
Karma

38D
Selects
Opts

39D
The person you root for in a movie
Hero

40D
Make like beer or coffee
Brew

43D
Imitate a dove’s call
Coo

44D
Animal Kingdom broadcaster
TNT

46D
Just you wait and ___!
See

47D
Burns who makes television documentaries
Ken