10/4/24 Answer Crosswords With Friends

10/4/24
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1A
On’s opposite
Off

4A
___ story (tale of woe)
Sob

7A
Flows back from the seashore
Ebbs

11A
Newcastle Brown _____
Ale

12A
Mattress size that’s smaller than full
Twin

14A
____ Day (February 29)
Leap

15A
Actress Dennings of WandaVision
Kat

16A
____ Domini (what A.D. means)
Anno

17A
Member of an early South American empire
Inca

18A
Hockey legend who ws the first since Bobby Orr to tally 100+ assists in a season, and did so 11 times: 2 wds.
Wayne Gretzky

21A
Put together, in math class
Add

22A
Food coloring, for example
Dye

23A
Like a door that is slightly open
Ajar

26A
Cube rolled at a craps table
Die

27A
Narcissist’s personally trait
Ego

30A
Oilers center who in April 2024 became the fourth player with a 100-assist season (Nikita Kucherov was fifth, two days later): 2 wds.
Connor McDavid

34A
Cheers actor Danson
Ted

35A
Gun, as an engine
Rev

36A
Grains in a desert
Sand

37A
Salty expanse
Sea

38A
Sound that might go with ooh
Aah

40A
Penguins center was the third player to have a 100-assist season: 2 wds.
Mario Lemieux

46A
Doomsayer’s sign
Omen

47A
Diagnostic pics in hospitals: Abbr.
Mris

48A
Jack’s value in blackjack
Ten

50A
Mountain’s top
Peak

51A
Window ledge
Sill

52A
TV host Navarro who spoke at the Democratic National Convention in August
Ana

53A
Terminates
Ends

54A
Originally born as
Nee

55A
Hit the ____ (go to bed)
Hay

1D
Southern live ____ (state tree of Georgia)
Oak

2D
Small blemish in a gemstone
Flaw

3D
Cumbly Greek cheese
Feta

4D
Arise from a chair
Stand

5D
Employee-____ business
Owned

6D
Rival search engine to Google
Bing

7D
Cream of the crop
Elite

8D
Mercedes-_____ (German automaker)
Benz

9D
The straw that broke the camel’s ____
Back

10D
Neuter
Spay

13D
___ combined (Winter Olympics event)
Nordic

19D
Ball in a knitter’s basket
Yarn

20D
Black-____ (Susan (yellow flower)
Eyed

23D
Play a role onstage
Act

24D
Sloppy ____ (messy sandwich)
Joe

25D
Green Eggs ___ Ham
And

26D
Place to renew a driver’s license: Abbr.
DMV

27D
First name of Juan Peron’s wife
Eva

28D
Variety of rummy
Gin

29D
Like the numbers 3, 5, and 7
Odd

31D
Sandwich cookie with a Sour Patch Kids variety
Oreo

32D
Kingdoms
Realms

33D
Arthur ____ Stadium (US Open venue)
Ashe

37D
Places to wash your hands
Sinks

38D
Give him an inch and he’ll take ____: 2 wds.
Amile

39D
Walkway dividing church pews
Aisle

40D
Behave like a gloomy Gus
Mope

41D
Prayer’s closing word
Amen

42D
Perus a newspaper, say
Read

43D
CNN anchor Burnett
Erin

44D
Its largest cities include West Jordan and Provo
Utah

45D
Lucy Lawless’s TV heroine of the 1990s
Xena

49D
Opposite of aye or yea
Nay