9/4/26 Answer Crosswords With Friends

9/4/26
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1A
Top for a pen or a camera lens
CAP

4A
Bratty attitude
SASS

8A
Area within a hospital
WARD

12A
Poem of appreciation
ODE

13A
___ S’mores (Baskin-Robbins flavor)
OREO

14A
Kind of boat rented at a lake resort
CANOE

15A
Simple card game where aces are high
WAR

16A
Unit of bread
LOAF

17A
Request to a blackjack dealer: 2 wds.
HIT ME

18A
Boxer, known as “the Greatest,” who was awarded the NAACP Image Awards – President’s Award in 2009: 2 wds.
MUHAMMAD ALI

21A
“Let You Love Me” singer Rita
ORA

22A
FedEx rival
UPS

23A
Blueprint
PLAN

26A
Words of comprehension: 2 wds.
I SEE

28A
Kind of top not typically worn to formal affairs
TEE

31A
Tennis star awarded the NAACP President’s Award in 2003, with her sister Venus: 2 wds.
SERENA WILLIAMS

35A
Perfectly fine, to astronauts: Hyph.
A-OK

36A
Mysterious objects in the sky: Abbr.
UFOS

37A
Horse’s gait that’s slower than a gallop
TROT

38A
Ultimate Fighting Championship activity: Abbr.
MMA

39A
Female that a sheep farmer raises
EWE

41A
Basketball star awarded the NAACP President’s Award in 2021: 2 wds.
LEBRON JAMES

46A
Upper crust of society
ELITE

48A
Ran out of battery power
DIED

49A
Customer who’s treated in a special manner: Abbr.
VIP

51A
Person who helps others relocate
MOVER

52A
Common first word in fairy tales
ONCE

53A
Marriage vow: 2 wds.
I DO

54A
App that asks “Where to?”
UBER

55A
Baseball team whose home games are played in Queens
METS

56A
Conducted
LED

1D
Animal on a dairy farm
COW

2D
Actor Sandler who officiated at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding
ADAM

3D
Country on South America’s Pacific coast
PERU

4D
From the sun
SOLAR

5D
Nice smell
AROMA

6D
Line of stitching
SEAM

7D
Furniture that could be a sectional
SOFA

8D
Sirens’ sounds
WAILS

9D
Prefix with “histamine” or “depressant”
ANTI

10D
___-com (type of movie sometimes referred to as a “chick flick”)
ROM

11D
“Do the Right Thing” actress Ruby
DEE

14D
Place to get married in Las Vegas
CHAPEL

19D
Sharpen, as the edge of a knife
HONE

20D
Old-timey showdown with pistols
DUEL

23D
Government ad against drugs, for example: Abbr.
PSA

24D
Pope who excommunicated leaders of the Society of Saint Pius X in July
LEO

25D
Noah’s ___
ARK

26D
___ Jima (1945 battle location)
IWO

27D
“Rah, rah, ___-boom-bah!”
SIS

28D
Substance used in some roof repairs
TAR

29D
Broody type of music
EMO

30D
The “E” in “ETA”: Abbr.
EST

32D
Integer
NUMBER

33D
Way over yonder
AFAR

39D
Remove, as a disc from a media player
EJECT

40D
Walks in shallow water
WADES

41D
“I can ___ with that”
LIVE

42D
“Hamilton” costar Leslie ___, Jr.
ODOM

43D
Midevening hour
NINE

44D
Really rotten
EVIL

45D
From the wrong ___ of the tracks
SIDE

46D
Large bird sometimes used for leather
EMU

47D
High-flying tennis shot
LOB

50D
What gets shucked from peas
POD