9/24/21
Sports Fan Friday
Are you stuck with the Crosswords With Friends Puzzle Today? Stuck No More. We offer complete solutions as well as “no spoiler” mode to give you that little extra push. Or simply use this cheat sheet to help you get the best and fastest completion time possible.
1A
Merchandise ID scanned by a cashier: Abbr.
UPC
4A
Hard-to-please actress
Diva
8A
Weather in a whiteout
Snow
12A
Cow’s comment
Moo
13A
Wicked
Evil
14A
Easy to handle, as a horse
Tame
15A
Company in the 1998 rom-com “You’ve Got Mail”
AOL
16A
Dark-skinned root vegetable
Beet
17A
Apple tablet
iPad
18A
Pirates shortstop who was inducted in the first Baseball Hall of Fame ceremony in 1939: 2 wds.
Honus Wagner
21A
Amount after taxes
Net
22A
Room’s floor covering
Rug
23A
Fearsome dinosaur: 2 wds., abbr.
Trex
25A
Patrol-car alerts: Abbr.
APBs
27A
Greek letter that looks like an H
ETA
30A
Senators pitcher who was inducted in the first Hall of Fame ceremony: 2 wds.
Walter Johnson
33A
Covert ___ (spy missions)
Ops
34A
Website selling lots of homemade face masks
Etsy
35A
US ___ (tennis tournament in Queens, New York)
Open
36A
First name of the host of MSNBC’s “Velshi”
Ali
37A
On behalf of
For
38A
Indians center fielder who was inducted in the first Hall of Fame ceremony: 2 wds.
Tris Speaker
43A
Strong cleaning compounds
Lyes
44A
Spelling of “90210”
Tori
One Clue Crossword
WordBrain
WordBubbles!
Word Whizzle
Words Crush
45A
Cry very hard
Sob
47A
Birthstone for many Libras
Opal
48A
Tehran’s country
Iran
49A
Utter aloud
Say
50A
He ran against Bush in 2000
Gore
51A
“___ la vie!” (French expression meaning “That’s life!”)
Cest
52A
“___ on a Grecian Urn” (Keats poem)
Ode
1D
Thurman of the “Kill Bill” films
Uma
2D
Piglet’s bear friend
Pooh
3D
Army officers between majors and generals
Colonels
4D
Premiere performance
Debut
5D
Currier & ___ (printmaking company)
Ives
6D
Pay-per-___
View
7D
Priest’s young assistant: 2 wds.
Altar Boy
8D
Attack from a wasp
Sting
9D
Back of the neck
Nape
10D
Actor Epps of “House”
Omar
11D
Get hitched
Wed
19D
At the front of a line
Next
20D
Flow with great force
Gush
23D
Number of people needed to play chess
Two
24D
Jay-Z’s music
Rap
25D
Having a talent for painting
Artistic
26D
Nightclothes, for short
PJs
27D
Strong order at Starbucks
Espresso
28D
___ shoes (ballerina’s footwear)
Toe
29D
Longtime advice columnist Landers
Ann
31D
Electric ___ (fish that can stun their prey)
Eels
32D
Every ___ and cranny
Nook
36D
Airplane’s walkway
Aisle
37D
Barely noticeable, like hard-to-read letters
Faint
38D
Mistake in printing
Typo
39D
Raise, like children
Rear
40D
Part of the skin that can get clogged
Pore
41D
Spans of history
Eras
42D
Street or avenue
Road
43D
___ off (stop browsing online)
Log
46D
“See you tomorrow!”
Bye