3/8/25 Answer Crosswords With Friends

3/8/25
Smartypants Saturday

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1A
Shelter that might be made from straw and mud
HUT

4A
House, in Argentina
CASA

8A
Finish an airplane flight
LAND

12A
Grill residue
ASH

13A
2024 Tony nominee Leslie ___, Jr.
ODOM

14A
Sailor’s greeting
AHOY

15A
“The Golden Girls” actress McClanahan
RUE

16A
Animated explorer on Nickelodeon
DORA

17A
Container at a florist’s shop
VASE

18A
Filipino American journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner (2 wds.)
MARIA RESSA

21A
Vehicle pulled by a team of Siberian huskies, say
SLED

22A
“I don’t know what ___ to do”
ELSE

23A
Make an offer on eBay
BID

26A
Having everything in its proper place
TIDY

28A
African beast with one or two horns
RHINO

30A
With 33-Across, Vietnamese American “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” novelist
OCEAN

33A
See 30-Across
VUONG

34A
Place where golfers hit bucketfuls of balls
RANGE

35A
Forest creature whose singular and plural forms are the same
DEER

37A
Key beside the Windows key
ALT

38A
Salmon, to bears and eagles
PREY

40A
All the ___ (currently very popular)
RAGE

44A
Korean American “Minari” actor honored with a 2024 Great Immigrants award (2 wds.)
STEVEN YEUN

46A
Detergent brand with an Instant Stain Remover pen
TIDE

49A
Rub the wrong way
RILE

50A
___ up straight (stop slouching)
SIT

51A
Vegetable used as a thickener in gumbo
OKRA

52A
Flexible cards in blackjack
ACES

53A
Word yelled at a bullring
OLE

54A
Uneaten part of an orange
PEEL

55A
NBA team that moved from New Jersey in 2012
NETS

56A
Pay-___-view movie
PER

1D
Does damage to
HARMS

2D
Standard
USUAL

3D
“Be ___ or be square”
THERE

4D
Final part of a song
CODA

5D
Thought the world of
ADORED

6D
“I’m ___ tempted” (“I really want to, but shouldn’t”)
SORELY

7D
Stockpile over time
AMASS

8D
Output from a volcano
LAVA

9D
Shout from a successful puzzle solver
AHA

10D
Words of dissent
NOS

11D
Product that can turn hair auburn or purple
DYE

19D
Dangler on a pet’s collar: 2 wds., abbr.
ID TAG

20D
Start a badminton game
SERVE

23D
Author information on a dust jacket, for short
BIO

24D
Lodging place in Vermont, say
INN

25D
Dachshund, for example
DOG

27D
Totally unskilled
INEPT

29D
“Make it snappy!”
HURRY

30D
“Did they have a boy ___ girl?”: 2 wds.
OR A

31D
Low-___ (good for dieters)
CAL

32D
Suffix for “exist” or “depend”
ENT

35D
Doomsday ___ (supervillain’s weapon)
DEVICE

36D
Hole for a shoelace
EYELET

39D
Aired again
RERAN

41D
“The Tortoise and the Hare” writer
AESOP

42D
Duplicity
GUILE

43D
Walk into a building
ENTER

44D
Marine mammal sometimes seen in a circus
SEAL

45D
Eliot who headed the Untouchables
NESS

46D
Zenith
TOP

47D
“I Like ___” (former presidential campaign slogan)
IKE

48D
Beats by ___ (headphones brand)
DRE