1/14/26 Answer Crosswords With Friends

1/14/26
Wayback Wednesday

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1A
Breakfast-all-day chain
IHOP

5A
Indy 500 vehicle
CAR

8A
Crush, as potatoes
MASH

12A
Dwight Eisenhower’s First Lady
MAMIE

14A
Tuscaloosa’s state: Abbr.
ALA

15A
Voice higher than tenor
ALTO

16A
Play for time
STALL

17A
“___ bygones be bygones!”
LET

18A
Reason to roll a tarp onto a ballfield
RAIN

19A
Singer of the 1991 hit “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia”: 2 wds.
REBAMCENTIRE

22A
___ Salvador (Central American capital)
SAN

23A
“___ amuse you?” (“GoodFellas” line): 2 wds.
DOI

24A
ISP that once owned Moviefone
AOL

27A
Number of players in a game of chess
TWO

30A
Lacking the skill
UNFIT

34A
Singer of the 1979 hit “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”: 2 wds.
CHARLIEDANIELS

38A
Cosmetics pioneer Lauder
ESTEE

39A
The twelfth month: Abbr.
DEC

40A
Antlered beast in Yellowstone
ELK

41A
Classic Hollywood actress Gardner
AVA

43A
Initials of a progressive representative from New York
AOC

46A
Singer of the 1973 hit “Midnight Train to Georgia”: 2 wds.
GLADYSKNIGHT

52A
Road ___ (driver’s fury)
RAGE

53A
Australian singer who voiced Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle in the movie “Peter Rabbit”
SIA

54A
The path of ___ resistance
LEAST

57A
___-the-counter drugs
OVER

58A
Pro golfer Ernie
ELS

59A
Dropped fly ball, for example
ERROR

60A
Globs of gum
WADS

61A
“One ___ customer”: 2 wds.
TOA

62A
___-bitsy (very small)
ITSY

1D
Sends an online text, for short
IMS

2D
Fedora or fez, for example
HAT

3D
Actor Epps of the Starz series “Raising Kanan”
OMAR

4D
Heaps, as of laundry
PILES

5D
Peace and quiet
CALM

6D
Third baseman Bohm of the Phillies
ALEC

7D
X-___ (pornographic)
RATED

8D
Gin-and-vermouth drink
MARTINI

9D
Jai ___ (Basque game)
ALAI

10D
___ the pot (cause unrest)
STIR

11D
Sharpen, like a knife
HONE

13D
Idris who played Stringer Bell on “The Wire”
ELBA

20D
Opposed to: Prefix
ANTI

21D
Sentence’s subject, typically
NOUN

24D
“___ Ventura: Pet Detective” (1994 movie)
ACE

25D
Post Honey ___! (cereal)
OHS

26D
Opposite of longitude: Abbr.
LAT

28D
Get hitched
WED

29D
“___ to a Nightingale” (John Keats poem)
ODE

31D
Attorney’s charge
FEE

32D
Not healthy
ILL

33D
“Shame on you!” sound
TSK

35D
Book club members
READERS

36D
Assess, as a tax
LEVY

37D
___ bowl (berry-filled snack)
ACAI

42D
Debit’s opposite
ASSET

44D
Stare at creepily
OGLE

45D
Former “Saturday Night Live” comedian Oteri
CHERI

46D
“Money doesn’t ___ on trees!”
GROW

47D
It might be ejected from Mount Etna
LAVA

48D
Ripened, like cheese
AGED

49D
Drug smuggler’s unit
KILO

50D
Kennedy Space Center’s organization: Abbr.
NASA

51D
Mini-pie
TART

55D
Distress call at sea
SOS

56D
Make an attempt
TRY