7/11/26 Answer Crosswords With Friends

7/11/26
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1A
Big prize on “The Price Is Right”
CAR

4A
Arrange in advance
PLAN

8A
Internet journal
BLOG

12A
Retired boxer Laila
ALI

13A
Santa ___ (seat of California’s Sonoma County)
ROSA

14A
“The Sopranos” actress Turturro
AIDA

15A
1989 Dean Koontz bestseller about a computer scientist converting people into murderous beasts
MIDNIGHT

17A
Hollow plant in a marsh
REED

18A
View from a beach resort
OCEAN

19A
Time between birthdays
YEAR

21A
___ Kane (longtime soap-opera role for Susan Lucci)
ERICA

23A
Risk
PERIL

27A
2009 Dean Koontz bestseller about a writer targeted by a sociopathic literary critic
RELENTLESS

30A
Melancholy
SAD

33A
Mount Rushmore companion of George, Thomas, and Teddy
ABE

34A
Lily ___ (plant in a pond)
PAD

35A
2006 Dean Koontz bestseller about a man framed for his wife’s murder by her kidnapper: 2 wds.
THE HUSBAND

40A
More ghostly-looking
PALER

41A
Tugboat’s sounds
TOOTS

44A
___ in the face (insult)
SLAP

47A
Bucking horse at a rodeo
BRONC

49A
Breathe heavily
PANT

52A
1992 Dean Koontz bestseller about a man psychically linked to a serial killer
HIDEAWAY

54A
2025 Pixar movie
ELIO

55A
Birthstone between sapphire and topaz
OPAL

56A
Baseball pitcher’s stat: Abbr.
ERA

57A
Gradually detach (from)
WEAN

58A
Math column between the ones and hundreds
TENS

59A
Group of Cub Scouts
DEN

1D
Commando’s clothing pattern, for short
CAMO

2D
Girl in two Lewis Carroll books
ALICE

3D
“Easy ____” (1969 Peter Fonda movie)
RIDER

4D
“When Doves Cry” singer
PRINCE

5D
Accrue, as airplane flying hours
LOG

6D
Covered in soot
ASHY

7D
Actor Corddry
NATE

8D
Wooden container for wine
BARREL

9D
Commit perjury
LIE

10D
Tribute that might use rhyming couplets
ODE

11D
___ about (rove around)
GAD

16D
Brand of hair remover
NAIR

20D
2025 song by Rosé and Bruno Mars
APT

22D
“___ and alack” (old-timey words of regret)
ALAS

24D
Certain member of Congress, for short
REP

25D
“A penny saved ___ penny earned”: 2 wds.
IS A

26D
Counterculture drug: Abbr.
LSD

28D
Diminish, as popularity
EBB

29D
Well-organized
NEAT

30D
Engine additive brand
STP

31D
Cry of realization
AHA

32D
___ Monte (brand of canned produce)
DEL

36D
“Ben-Hur” star Charlton
HESTON

37D
www.wikipedia.org, for example
URL

38D
Marie Curie won two of them, for short
NOBELS

39D
Explorer of kids’ TV
DORA

45D
Slaving over ___ stove: 2 wds.
A HOT

46D
Device that Mario can use to warp from one place to another
PIPE

48D
Bluish color of printer ink
CYAN

49D
Pepé Le ___ (cartoon skunk)
PEW

50D
Homophone of “ail”
ALE

51D
Actress Long who plays Katherine Jackson in “Michael”
NIA

53D
Steely ___ (rock band)
DAN