5/21/25 Answer Crosswords With Friends

5/21/25
Wayback Wednesday

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1A
Hydrogen or oxygen, at room temperature
GAS

4A
Rival
FOE

7A
Where to look for UFOs
SKY

10A
___-rock (Foo Fighters’ genre)
ALT

11A
Go on the ___ (flee from the police)
LAM

12A
MSNBC journalist Cabrera
ANA

13A
1982 sci-fi film set in dystopian 2019 Los Angeles: 2 wds.
BLADE RUNNER

16A
Line of adjacent seats in a theater
ROW

17A
Garden in Genesis
EDEN

18A
Makes a choice
OPTS

20A
Doesn’t need any alterations from a tailor
FITS

22A
Cedar or cypress, for example
TREE

23A
Coffee-pouring vessel
URN

24A
“It’s not my cup of ___” (“I don’t like it”)
TEA

27A
“Star Wars” actor who played cop Rick Deckard in 13: 2 wds.
HARRISON FORD

30A
___ Young Band (“Crazy Girl” country group)
ELI

31A
Supporting part of a tripod
LEG

32A
Very dry, in terms of climate
ARID

33A
Bad growth on a bathroom wall
MOLD

35A
Street performer who doesn’t talk
MIME

36A
“It’s either us or ___”
THEM

38A
“Fake it ___ you make it”
TIL

39A
“Ladyhawke” actor who played replicant Roy Batty in 13: 2 wds.
RUTGER HAUER

44A
Grow older
AGE

45A
Foreigner lead singer Gramm
LOU

46A
Kanga’s kid, in A.A. Milne stories
ROO

47A
Limit one ___ customer
PER

48A
Provided nourishment to
FED

49A
Wrap up
END

1D
Chat a lot
GAB

2D
“It’s my ___-time favorite!”
ALL

3D
First pitcher to pitch in a ball game
STARTER

4D
Took a plane
FLEW

5D
Implement that sounds like “ore”
OAR

6D
Large bird of the Outback
EMU

7D
Visibility-reducing weather incident in a desert
SANDSTORM

8D
Joint that’s higher than the shin
KNEE

9D
Material for a knitter
YARN

14D
Two, in Spanish
DOS

15D
Pickleball court divider
NET

18D
Like testimony that’s not written
ORAL

19D
Distance around the outside of a polygon
PERIMETER

20D
Animal that croaks
FROG

21D
Holiday ___ Express (hotel chain)
INN

22D
Asleep at ___ wheel
THE

23D
Tapped into
USED

25D
Pennsylvania city about halfway between Cleveland and Buffalo
ERIE

26D
“Something just doesn’t ___ up”
ADD

28D
Down with the flu, maybe
ILL

29D
Opposite of success
FAILURE

34D
Texter’s “I can’t believe it!”
OMG

35D
Soccer legend Hamm
MIA

36D
Snare
TRAP

37D
Enormous
HUGE

38D
Sound of something falling to the ground
THUD

40D
Legolas Greenleaf, for one
ELF

41D
___ v. Wade (1973 court case)
ROE

42D
Long, long, long time
EON

43D
Curtain holder
ROD