9/30/26 Answer Crosswords With Friends

9/30/26
Wayback Wednesday

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1A
Very funny!: Hyph.
HA-HA

5A
Non-strenuous running pace
JOG

8A
Light metric weight
GRAM

12A
District
AREA

13A
___ Baba (hero of a folktale)
ALI

14A
Greek letter following theta
IOTA

15A
“Law & Order: SVU” actor who played Det. John Munch on “Homicide: Life on the Street”: 2 wds.
RICHARD BELZER

18A
2008 Liam Neeson movie involving a kidnapped daughter
TAKEN

19A
Bloom that hasn’t yet opened
BUD

20A
Remove, as a top hat
DOFF

23A
Ascends
RISES

27A
___ resort (place such as Vail)
SKI

30A
In addition
TOO

31A
Exploding star
NOVA

32A
“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” actor who played Det. Frank Pembleton on “Homicide”: 2 wds.
ANDRE BRAUGHER

36A
“Sicko ___” (Travis Scott song)
MODE

37A
Not trans
CIS

38A
“Did they have a girl ___ boy?”: 2 wds.
OR A

39A
Dots on a subway map
STOPS

41A
Ostriches’ cousins
EMUS

43A
Spill the ___ (gossip)
TEA

45A
Homophone of “I’ll”
AISLE

49A
“Mulholland Falls” actor who played Det. Beau Felton on “Homicide”: 2 wds.
DANIEL BALDWIN

54A
Hidden immunity token on “Survivor”
IDOL

55A
Rainbow shape
ARC

56A
Touch down on a runway
LAND

57A
Herb used in some cleansing rituals
SAGE

58A
Singer ___ King Cole
NAT

59A
Potato protuberances
EYES

1D
“Sabrina the Teenage Witch” star Melissa Joan ___
HART

2D
Opera diva’s solo
ARIA

3D
“Oh, shoot!”
HECK

4D
Oohed and ___
AAHED

5D
Get caught with your hand in the cookie ___
JAR

6D
Like a tree with many trunk rings
OLD

7D
“I Just Want to Be Your Everything” singer Andy
GIBB

8D
___ the lily (making unnecessarily fancy)
GILDING

9D
Character on “Frasier” played by Peri Gilpin
ROZ

10D
Gobbled up
ATE

11D
When spring begins in the Northern Hemisphere: Abbr.
MAR

16D
Make ___ of (jot down): 2 wds.
ANOTE

17D
Home to Portugal and Poland: Abbr.
EUR

21D
Keyless car door opener
FOB

22D
Air ___ One (president’s plane)
FORCE

24D
Neighborhood in lower Manhattan
SOHO

25D
“I don’t ___ want to hear from you again!”
EVER

26D
Actress Gilbert of “Roseanne”
SARA

27D
___ Club (rival of Costco)
SAMS

28D
Tightness in a muscle that a masseur might try to relax
KNOT

29D
“___ anything for you!”: 2 wds.
I’D DO

33D
Cold-blooded animal
REPTILE

34D
Goal
AIM

35D
“The ___ Suspects” (Gabriel Byrne movie)
USUAL

40D
Date on a regular basis
SEE

42D
Move laterally, not forward
SIDLE

47D
Draw a ___ in the sand
ALAN

48D
Draws to a close
SWAY

49D
Bad-mouth, in slang
LINE

50D
Prosecutor’s aide: Abbr.
ENDS

51D
Eggy Christmas beverage
DIS

52D
Top half of a bikini
ADA

53D
Give a dramatic performance
NOG