10/16/25 Answer Crosswords With Friends

10/16/25
Top 40 Thursday

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1A
Verdi opera that has been performed almost 1,200 times at the Metropolitan Opera (4 letters)
AIDA

5A
Go at a moderate pace on a treadmill.
JOG

8A
Vaccination, in slang
JAB

11A
Dyed-in-the-____ (uncompromising) (4 letters)
WOOL

12A
Boating tool that rhymes with “core” (3 letters)
OAR

13A
____ text (caption for social-media photos) (4 letters)
ALT

14A
2021 Olivia Rodrigo hit with the lyric “I just want myself back”: 3 wds. (11 letters)
ENOUGHFORYOU

17A
Boys, when they become adults (3 letters)
MEN

18A
W, on a compass (4 letters)
WEST

19A
____-pedi (nail salon job) (4 letters)
MANI

21A
Actress Gasteyer who’s competed on “The Masked Singer” (4 letters)
ANA

22A
2023 Olivia Rodrigo hit with the lyric “Two plus two equals five” (7 letters)
LOGICAL

24A
Frontal ____ (part of the brain) (4 letters)
LOBE

28A
Intelligent primate (3 letters)
APE

29A
Soul singer Redding (4 letters)
OTIS

31A
Month that’s unlikely to be abbreviated (4 letters)
MAY

32A
1940s First Lady Truman (4 letters)
BESS

34A
2023 Olivia Rodrigo hit with the lyric “Bleedin’ me dry” (7 letters)
VAMPIRE

36A
Cards checked before alcohol purchases: Abbr. (3 letters)
IDS

38A
Digs in (4 letters)
EATS

39A
Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del ____ (4 letters)
TORO

41A
Operated, as machinery (4 letters)
RAN

42A
2023 Olivia Rodrigo hit with the lyric “I know I should stop, but I can’t”: 3 wds. (11 letters)
BADIDEARIGHT

47A
National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee Whitney (3 letters)
ELI

48A
Word that can follow “trade” or “generation” (3 letters)
GAP

49A
Alaska city where the Discovery Channel’s “Bering Sea Gold” is set (4 letters)
NOME

50A
What a golf ball is placed atop (3 letters)
TEE

51A
Trauma centers: Abbr. (3 letters)
ERS

52A
Apple music player discontinued in 2022 (4 letters)
IPOD

1D
Wonderment
AWE

2D
“Am ____ top of things or what?”: 2 wds. (7 letters)
ION

3D
“Yabba dabba ____!” (“The Flintstones” exclamation) (3 letters)
DOO

4D
Graduates who get fundraising mail (6 letters)
ALUMNI

5D
Wick played by Keanu Reeves (4 letters)
JOHN

6D
Clumsy sort of person (3 letters)
OAF

7D
No longer a child (5 letters)
GROWN

8D
Toronto Blue ____ (baseball team) (7 letters)
JAYS

9D
Tons (of): 2 wds. (6 letters)
ALOT

10D
Air conditioner’s energy measure: Abbr. (3 letters)
BTU

15D
Insurance company with caveman commercials (6 letters)
GEICO

16D
Actual (4 letters)
REAL

19D
Act all pouty (4 letters)
MOPE

20D
Ripens (4 letters)
AGES

21D
“Search Party” star Shawkat (4 letters)
ALIA

22D
Virologist’s workroom (3 letters)
LAB

23D
Off-road transports: Abbr. (4 letters)
ATVS

25D
Leave out (4 letters)
OMIT

26D
Pieces of equipment used for chin-ups and pull-ups (4 letters)
BARS

27D
Bird’s-____ view (3 letters)
EYE

30D
Lipstick mishap (5 letters)
SMEAR

33D
Apple voice assistant (4 letters)
SIRI

35D
Sandwich that’s made in a press (6 letters)
PANINI

37D
Sidestep, as a difficult question (5 letters)
DODGE

39D
“A ____ of Two Cities” (Dickens novel) (4 letters)
TALE

40D
Dog in “Garfield: The Movie” (4 letters)
ODIE

41D
Spits some rhymes (4 letters)
RAPS

42D
What gamblers do (3 letters)
BET

43D
Turn a deaf ____ to (to ignore) (3 letters)
EAR

44D
Group led by Donald Trump: Abbr. (3 letters)
GOP

45D
Certain medical insurance plan: Abbr. (3 letters)
HMO

46D
TV soccer coach Lasso (3 letters)
TED