10/20/26 Answer Crosswords With Friends

10/20/26
TV Tuesday

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1A
Casual conversations
CHATS

6A
Item cleared by a pole vaulter
BAR

9A
Dessert at a birthday party
CAKE

13A
Sultan’s group of wives
HAREM

14A
“Where the Wild Things ___” (Maurice Sendak book)
ARE

15A
Carpet-laying calculation
AREA

16A
Genre of the 2001 movie “Spirited Away”
ANIME

17A
“It ___ meant to be!”
WAS

18A
False statements
LIES

19A
“A Beautiful Mind” actor who plays the android Vision on the Disney+ series “VisionQuest”: 2 wds.
PAULBETTANY

22A
Good that has a tariff imposed on it
IMPORT

25A
Simple, casual top
TEE

26A
Vehicle in a demolition derby
CAR

27A
“Everything comes ___ price”: 2 wds.
ATA

30A
Suffers after sleeping on a lumpy mattress, say
ACHES

34A
“Schitt’s Creek” actress who plays the artificial intelligence E.D.I.T.H. on “VisionQuest”: 2 wds.
EMILYHAMPSHIRE

38A
Girl Scout cookie named for a Pacific island nation
SAMOA

39A
Animal sound heard by shepherds
BAA

40A
Liquor in a Tom Collins
GIN

41A
Hot tub
SPA

43A
Needed to scratch
ITCHED

46A
“The Blacklist” actor who plays the artificial intelligence Ultron on “VisionQuest”: 2 wds.
JAMESSPADER

51A
Dollar bills
ONES

52A
Sidekick
PAL

53A
Canadian singer McLachlan
SARAH

57A
Himalayan creature in “Monsters, Inc.”
YETI

58A
Narcissist’s personality trait
EGO

59A
Fewer than three times
TWICE

60A
Whack, as a housefly
SWAT

61A
“Born with the name”
NEE

62A
Places to insert coins in parking meters
SLOTS

1D
When written two or three times, a ballroom dance
CHA

2D
First name of Solo in “Solo”
HAN

3D
Actress Nicole ___ Parker
ARI

4D
Pace of a piece of music
TEMPO

5D
Lipstick smudge
SMEAR

6D
Cry profusely
BAWL

7D
Swift breed of horse
ARAB

8D
Puzzle app’s button that is used to start over
RESET

9D
Science-focused school in Pasadena, familiarly
CALTECH

10D
Operatic tenor’s showpiece
ARIA

11D
Peachy ___ (nifty)
KEEN

12D
Not at all difficult
EASY

20D
State that’s home to the NHL’s Mammoth
UTAH

21D
Herbal beverages
TEAS

22D
Decorates, as cookies
ICES

23D
Fairy-tale bear whose porridge was too cold
MAMA

24D
Stiffly proper
PRIM

28D
Bill at a pub
TAB

29D
Group that surgeons belong to: Abbr.
AMA

31D
Daily temperature maximum
HIGH

32D
Lake that ranges from Michigan to New York
ERIE

33D
Email command
SEND

35D
Goes nuts: 2 wds.
LOSESIT

36D
Pups’ barks
YAPS

44D
Laboratory inspections
PAID

45D
Move on all fours
ASPEN

46D
Immense pleasures
TESTS

47D
From the beginning
CRAWL

48D
Self-referential
JOYS

49D
Actor Elliot who played Sinon in “The Odyssey”
ANEW

50D
Spiky-leafed plant used in some topical medicines
META

54D
2011 cartoon movie about a macaw named Blu
PAGE

55D
“Get your ___ together!”
ALOE

56D
“____ a real nowhere man …” (Beatles lyric)
RIO