6/20/26 Answer Crosswords With Friends

6/20/26
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1A
Common fourth-down plays in NFL games
PUNTS

6A
Not mild, in terms of salsa
HOT

9A
___ Rutherford (MetLife Stadium’s city)
EAST

13A
Holler
SHOUT

14A
Extreme anger
IRE

15A
Janis’s husband, in the title of a comic strip
ARLO

16A
Kama ___ (ancient Sanskrit text)
SUTRA

17A
Precious stone that’s cut and polished
GEM

18A
Backside
REAR

19A
2018 Steve Berry thriller with two chess pieces in its title: 3 wds.
THE BISHOP’S PAWN

22A
Material that goes into a foundry
ORE

23A
Type of paint used by artists
OIL

24A
Tool for a janitor
MOP

27A
Shirt that could be “muscle fit” or “scoop neck”
TEE

30A
Tour group’s leader
GUIDE

34A
2023 Steve Berry thriller with a type of government in its title: 3 wds.
THELASTKINGDOM

38A
___ cords (membranes in the throat)
VOCAL

39A
“Just give me one quick ___ …”
SEC

40A
Musician Sutcliffe who was replaced by Paul McCartney in the Beatles
STU

41A
Mother deer
DOE

43A
Have a snack
EAT

46A
2026 Steve Berry thriller with a holy book in its title: 3 wds.
THEDEVILSBIBLE

54A
German carmaker that is the parent company of Bentley Motors
AUDI

55A
Quiet ___ mouse: 2 wds.
AS A

56A
Brainless person
IDIOT

57A
2009-2015 TV show that starred Matthew Morrison
GLEE

58A
Prefix for “infect” or “ingenuous”
DIS

59A
Business transactions
DEALS

60A
Phoenix’s NBA team
SUNS

61A
Ending for “host”
ESS

62A
Type of written homework assignment
ESSAY

1D
Hiss that means “Hey, over here!”
PSST

2D
Repetitive way to say “nope”: Hyph.
UH-UH

3D
Short handwritten letter
NOTE

4D
Souped-up engine
TURBO

5D
Step between floors of a building
STAIR

6D
Lofty
HIGH

7D
Cookie with “Thins” and “Cakesters” lines
OREO

8D
Speed of a musical passage
TEMPO

9D
Piece of foam that shuts out noise
EARPLUG

10D
Carpeting measurement
AREA

11D
Cole ___ (shredded side dish)
SLAW

12D
Actor Rip who played Zed in the “Men in Black” movies
TORN

20D
Filming locations
SETS

21D
Put your John Hancock on
SIGN

24D
Cable channel whose first video was “Video Killed the Radio Star”
MTV

25D
“Well, well, well!”
OHO

26D
Muscle worked by bench presses, for short
PEC

28D
Martians and Neptunians, for example: Abbr.
ETS

29D
Scratch (out), as a living
EKE

31D
Picks out of a police lineup
IDS

32D
Small speck
DOT

33D
Big Australian bird
EMU

35D
What Scots call boys
LADDIES

36D
Moisturizing ingredient
ALOE

44D
Put up with
ABIDE

45D
“Ebb” and “neap” movements in the ocean
TIDES

46D
License plates
TAGS

47D
Streaming service that airs “The Testaments”
HULU

48D
Biblical garden
EDEN

49D
Important Egyptian goddess
ISIS

50D
What Scots call a girl
LASS

51D
Unfair prejudice
BIAS

52D
“Messy” singer Young
LOLA

53D
Website for buying crafts
ETSY