9/27/25 Answer Crosswords With Friends

9/27/25
Smartypants Saturday

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1A
Segment of a circle’s circumference
ARC

4A
Vim and vigor
PEP

7A
Small tastes of a drink
SIPS

11A
Gloppy stuff
GOO

12A
Furious feeling
IRE

13A
Where Iran and Iraq are
ASIA

14A
“Slippery” shade tree
ELM

15A
Tell a whopper
LIE

16A
No-man’s-____ (unclaimed territory)
LAND

17A
Ancient Greek playwright who wrote tragedies, including “Oedipus Rex”
SOPHOCLES

20A
“___ It Go” (song from “Frozen”)
LET

21A
Lake near Carson City
TAHOE

25A
“____ Window” (Hitchcock film)
REAR

27A
Computer named for an apple, for short
MAC

29A
Bump ____ log: 2 wds.
ONA

30A
Ancient Greek playwright who wrote comedies, including “The Frogs”
ARISTOPHANES

33A
Moral transgression
SIN

34A
Chart-topper
HIT

35A
Empty ____ syndrome
NEST

36A
Green sauce in Italian cuisine
PESTO

38A
Pigs’ pen
STY

39A
Ancient Greek playwright who wrote tragedies, including “Medea”
EURIPIDES

44A
Container for cut flowers
VASE

47A
Poem by Keats or Shelley, often
ODE

48A
Prefix for “system” or “sphere”
ECO

49A
Small songbird
WREN

50A
All US presidents to date
MEN

51A
The ____ (“Tommy” band)
WHO

52A
Remain
STAY

53A
Surface for a computer mouse
PAD

54A
Junior, to his dad
SON

1D
“Rock of ____” (Christian hymn)
AGES

2D
Brand of chocolate-coated caramels
ROLO

3D
Gripes
COMPLAINS

4D
Person flying a plane
PILOT

5D
“Untamed” actor Bana
ERIC

6D
What sunburned skin will eventually do
PEEL

7D
Zesty dip for tortilla chips
SALSA

8D
“Heaven ____ Place on Earth” (1987 Belinda Carlisle song): 2 wds.
ISA

9D
Target for a bowler
PIN

10D
Bummed out
SAD

18D
Woman’s pronoun
HERS

19D
____ A Sketch (drawing toy)
ETCH

22D
Large green melons
HONEYDEWS

23D
Singles in a wallet
ONES

24D
John Steinbeck’s “____ of Eden”
EAST

25D
Sound of a hoarse voice
RASP

26D
New York canal
ERIE

27D
“Me,” to Miss Piggy
MOI

28D
Appropriate
APT

31D
“____ shalt not kill”
THOU

32D
Not in favor of: Prefix
ANTI

37D
____-weeny
TEENY

38D
Go on a shopping spree
SPEND

40D
Cavort like a young puppy
ROMP

41D
“I have a crazy ___!”
IDEA

42D
Bounced-back sound
ECHO

43D
“Not a moment too ____!”
SOON

44D
Passats and Jettas, for short
VWS

45D
Museum offerings
ART

46D
What Neptune was the god of
SEA