7/6/24 Answer Crosswords With Friends

7/6/24
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1A
Lard, for example
Fat

4A
House actor Omar
Epps

8A
Cease
Stop

12A
Sorta: Suffix
Ish

13A
Actress Sorvino
Mira

14A
Underground space with stalactites
Cave

15A
Actor Simu who plays Shang-Chi
Liu

16A
Lump of thickened blood
Clot

17A
Pair of yoked bovines
Oxen

18A
Coda actress who lost most of her hearing at 18 months: 2 wds.
Marlee Matlin

21A
Ranking at a tennis tournament
Seed

22A
___ off (being to fall asleep)
Nod

23A
Actress ____ Pinkett Smith
Jada

25A
Illuminated
Lit

26A
Computer that might sync with an iPhone
Mac

29A
Spanish painter of The Naked Maja who became totally deaf after an illness at age 46: 2 wds.
Francisco Goya

33A
Part of a typewriter or piano
Key

34A
Find a sum
Add

35A
Above
Over

36A
Kind, solicitous attention: Abbr.
TLC

37A
Welcome Back, Kotter star Kaplan
Gabe

39A
Prolific American inventor who lost most of his hearing at age 12: 2 wds.
Thomas Edison

44A
Goodnight ____ (classic children’s book)
Moon

45A
With 46-Across, current judge on The Masked Singer
Rita

46A
See 45-Across
Ora

47A
Merely
Only

48A
What leaky faucets do
Drip

49A
_____ Enterprise (Star Trek vessel): Abbr.
USS

50A
The birds and the ___
Bees

51A
Transmitted
Sent

52A
It won’t amount ___ hill of beans: 2 wds.
To A

1D
It may be Oscar-nominated
Film

2D
Continent with the most people
Asia

3D
Maundy ____ (part of Holy Week, in Christianity)
Thursday

4D
Program host
Emcee

5D
Stacked
Piled

6D
Big dance for high schoolers
Prom

7D
Extremely evil
Satanic

8D
Chew out
Scold

9D
Sitcom that starred Judd Hirsch and Danny DeVito
Taxi

10D
Bakery appliance
Oven

11D
Writing implement that may be refillable
Pen

19D
Like the diet of Jack Sprat
Lean

20D
Dog on the Yellow Brick Road
Toto

23D
Initials of a president and a New York City airport
JFK

24D
We ___ the Champions (Queen song)
Are

25D
Hullucinatory drug: Abbr.
LSD

26D
Leaves one’s home for good: 2 wds.
Moves Out

27D
Affirmative, captain
Aye

28D
What the Kelley Blue Book can give the value of
Car

30D
Tranquil
Calm

31D
Driver’s licenses, often: 2 wds, abbr.
Id Cards

32D
Mongolian desert
Gobi

36D
Awards for New York stage performers
Tonys

37D
___ touch with (contact): 2 wds.
Get In

38D
Modify, as a book into a movie
Adapt

39D
Sound quality
Tone

40D
What a moth might make in a wool sweater
Hole

41D
Horse’s male parent
Sire

42D
Roughly: 2 wds.
Or So

43D
Agency that monitors the Mars rover: Abbr.
Nasa

44D
____ mentality (groupthink)
Mob