5/15/21 Answer Crosswords With Friends

5/15/21
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1A
La Quinta ___ & Suites (hotel chain)
Inns

5A
Attacked with the teeth
Bit

8A
A weather reporter often stands in front of one
Map

11A
Game played with a cue
Pool

12A
High’s opposite
Low

13A
www.gonzaga.___
Edu

14A
Black American playwright who wrote “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”: 2 wds.
August Wilson

17A
Piggish noise
Snort

18A
Base line on a graph
Axis

19A
“Larry Crowne” actress Grier
Pam

21A
“Narcos: Mexico” star ___ Luna
Diego

25A
Alphabetically first playing card
Ace

28A
“___ and the Last Dragon” (2021 movie)
Raya

31A
Eye doctor’s annual service
Exam

32A
Award that 14-Across won twice, for “Fences” and “The Piano Lesson”: 2 wds.
Pulitzer Prize

35A
Rolls back from the beach
Ebbs

36A
Singer with such albums as “Watermark” and “Amarantine”
Enya

37A
Top ___ list
Ten

38A
Distributed after a shuffle
Dealt

40A
Pest attracted to food crumbs
Ant

42A
Hilda or Zelda, to Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Aunt

45A
From Dublin, perhaps
Irish

49A
Series of 10 plays by 14-Across, including “Fences” and “The Piano Lesson,” that chronicle life in Black America over a 100-year span: 2 wds.
Century Cycle

52A
Mopey
Sad

53A
Something twisted to keep a bread bag closed
Tie

54A
Navy special operations team member
Seal

55A
“___ your move”
Its

56A
Spread around, like seeds in a garden
Sow

57A
Employee who probably doesn’t get many benefits
Temp

1A
Hoppy orders at a microbrewery: Abbr.
Ipas

2A
Part of speech that can be “proper”
Noun

3D
Canceled, as a NASA launch: Hyph.
Nogo

4D
Sip soup noisily
Slurp

5D
Sandwich that may have an applewood smoked flavor, for short
BLT

6D
Missouri’s northern neighbor
Iowa

7D
Candy bar with “Left” and “Right” factories in its commercials
Twix

8D
More disorganized
Messier

9D
Turmoil
Ado

10D
Joke sometimes called “the lowest form of humor”
Pun

15D
Square one
Start

16D
Slow cooker’s topper
Lid

20D
Labyrinth
Maze

22D
Departure
Exit

23D
Hypnotic stare
Gaze

24D
Warning of things that may happen
Omen

25D
Imitated tauntingly
Aped

26D
Rubik’s puzzle shape
Cube

27D
“Luther” actor Idris
Elba

29D
Intense longing
Yen

30D
Sansa’s sister on “Game of Thrones”
Arya

33D
Parts of an archipelago
Islands

34D
DON’T ___ (phrase on the cover of the novel “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”)
Panic

39D
“King ___” (1978 song by Steve Martin)
Tut

41D
Lovers’ secret meeting
Tryst

43D
Crunchy items in trail mix
Nuts

44D
Music group that’s one smaller than a quartet
Trio

46D
Slushy treat with a polar bear mascot
Icee

47D
Close forcefully, as a door
Slam

48D
“___! I need somebody” (start of a Beatles song)
Help

49D
Longtime procedural set in Las Vegas
CSI

50D
Gulp down
Eat

51D
Tree with cones and berries
Yew