11/4/23 Answer Crosswords With Friends

11/4/23
Smartypants Saturday

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1A
Strike a ___, there’s nothing to it (line from Madonna’s Vogue)
Pose

5A
Without a ___ in the world
Care

9A
Number listed on some old business cards
Fax

12A
Like most testimony given in court
Oral

13A
Eddie Murphy’s Beverly Hills Cop role, ___ Foley
Axel

14A
Chess player’s goal
Mate

15A
Bartenders pull them for beer
Taps

16A
Amazon founder who’s been on the Tim 100 list five times: 2 wds.
Jeff Bezos

18A
Third-largest country in South America
Peru

20A
Checkout counter unit
Item

21A
Say ____ (2010 Trey Songz hit)
Aah

23A
New Delhi resident
Indian

27A
Remove, as a plastic bottle cap
Twist

29A
Last part of a gerund or participle
Ing

30A
Primate that beats its chest
Ape

33A
Facebook cofounder who’s been on the Time 100 list four times: 2 wds.
Mark Zuckerberg

37A
About ____ big (roughly as tall as I’m gesturing)
Yea

38A
Detect visually
See

39A
Spooky, like a misty graveyard
Eerie

40A
Make melancholy
Sadden

42A
Dead ___ against (totally opposed to)
Set

43A
Give them an ___ and they’ll take a mile
Inch

46A
2018 Aiden Ehrenreich movie
Solo

48A
Apple cofounder who was on the Time 100 list five times: 2 wds.
Steve Jobs

52A
Like an old saying whose originator is lost to history: Abbr.
Anon

55A
___ for the poor (charity)
Alms

56A
Supernatural radiance)
Aura

57A
Hawaiian island that suffered great wildfire damage in August
Maui

58A
Day-___ (like fluorescent paint)
Glo

59A
Donkey’s comment
Bray

60A
Dot on a sonar screen
Blip

1D
That’s the ___ calling the kettle black!
Pot

2D
It could be either a blessing ___ curse: 2 wds.
Oral

3D
Blue gemstone
Sapphire

4D
Who ___ knew about this?
Else

5D
Cuisine that includes jambalaya
Cajun

6D
Have an ___ to grind
Axe

7D
Official in Foot Locker’s logo, for short
Ref

8D
Worker in Santa’s workshop
Elf

9D
Throw for a loop
Faze

10D
One of three in a water molecule
Atom

11D
Letters made with two crossing lines
Xes

14D
Have we ___ before?
Met

17D
Receptacle for recycling
Bin

19D
Brand of cracker with seven small holes
Ritz

21D
Device that might impose a withdrawal fee: Abbr.
Atm

22D
Far and ___ (by a large margin)
Away

24D
Chopped into tiny cubes
Diced

25D
Covered in body art
Inked

26D
What defines a May-December romance
Age

28D
Reggae relative
Ska

30D
Barney Miller actor Vigoda
Abe

31D
The P of Pin
Personal

32D
Pennsylvania city midway between Cleveland and Buffalo
Erie

34D
Country founded on July 4, 1776: Abbr.
USA

35D
Nevada city known as the Biggest Little City in the world
Reno

36D
___ cracking! (Hurry)
Get

40D
___ Will Be Loved (Maroon 5 song)
She

41D
Personal part of a college application
Essay

43D
___ all be over soon
Itll

44D
Pixar fish named for a Jules Verne character
Nemo

45D
Drugstore chain with MinuteClinics
CVS

47D
Offspring of sheep
Lamb

48D
____AFTRA (actors’ union that went on strike in July): Abbr.
Sag

49D
Boxer’s fast punch
Jab

50D
The Fault in ____ Stars (YA novel by John Green)
Our

51D
Garment that’s built into some tank tops
Bra

53D
Agreement in France
Oui

54D
___ it in the bud (catch a problem before it gets bad)
Nip