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Across
  1. 1A
    Hollywood hrs.
  2. 4A
    Beloved Mets center fielder Tommie Lee, who made two spectacular defensive plays in Game 3 of the 1969 World Series
  3. 8A
    Orders to some felines (not to Ginger Cat, of course!)
  4. 13A
    Alternative to "ear-related"
  5. 15A
    Pass the welcome mat
  6. 16A
    "Stop! Are you kidding me..."
  7. 17A
    Clearly a small amount of letters - but when you find a pair that doesn't work, don't get rid of it!
  8. 20A
    Caustic cleaner
  9. 21A
    Scurrying meerkat in "The Lion King"
  10. 22A
    Ninole Hills on Hawaii are near Mauna ___ (50:50 chance!)
  11. 23A
    Versatile Nissan model
  12. 25A
    New words are frequently added to this: Abbr.
  13. 26A
    FedEx, e.g.
  14. 27A
    Common cold feature?
  15. 29A
    Curved movement through the air (look before you do it!)
  16. 31A
    Gamma coding and ___-pair encoding: two forms of data compression (the statistician went data way!)
  17. 34A
    "Seen my charged particle lately?" "No, but I'll keep an ___ it"
  18. 36A
    Krispy Kreme residue, if, like, a bunch of liquefied Krispy Kreme donuts are suddenly oozing out of the factory (donut mind me)
  19. 40A
    Bond rating (insert some James Bond pun here)
  20. 41A
    "NBC Nightly Brews," Starbucks, and other bistros, for example (I just made the first one up)
  21. 43A
    TCM has movies for all to see / But if it showed the wrong one, then it ___ on TV
  22. 44A
    Rushing outside to see the first snowfall, with regard to winter, perhaps
  23. 47A
    "Again let me try that..."
  24. 48A
    CDs of "The Lion King" soundtrack would feature his song "Be Prepared"
  25. 49A
    Instrumental gin flavoring ("Pour it already!" "I have to go ___")
  26. 50A
    Snack (is it a breath mint? a candy mint?) sold until 2018
  27. 51A
    Sbarro's "Slices for ___" campaign (previous initiative with St. Jude's)
  28. 52A
    Tedious musical syllables, perhaps
Down
  1. 1D
    Homes where frogs have their bachelor pads
  2. 2D
    Hectic place at the holidays
  3. 3D
    "Lions ___ Up Their Offense" (my pun headline after they trounced Tennessee for the first time in nearly 30 years in 2024)
  4. 4D
    Before now
  5. 5D
    Body of leaders, briefly
  6. 6D
    Children's song's non-consonantal refrain
  7. 7D
    Notable coat for canines?
  8. 8D
    One of these days
  9. 9D
    Famed "In the Heights" director Jon M.
  10. 10D
    Necessary - and then some!
  11. 11D
    Nail on an eagle (I was quite ___-ted to think of this clue)
  12. 12D
    First golfer to win a PGA Tour event in four different decades
  13. 14D
    "Since when? No way!"
  14. 18D
    N. Dame will ___ through the college playoffs this year, I hope! (Go Fighting Irish!)
  15. 19D
    Keys might be needed to unlock them
  16. 24D
    Crisp sans-serif typeface
  17. 26D
    Fervently rejects
  18. 28D
    "Nice try, but you have to draw some cards now!"
  19. 30D
    C.S. Lewis's characters on the Dawn Treader might have used this nautical adverb
  20. 31D
    Garden-variety ("I really don't like your plants..." "I beg your garden!")
  21. 32D
    "Gee whiz, I rock!"
  22. 33D
    Assuredly less wild
  23. 35D
    Brand of wafers
  24. 37D
    YMCAs might offer a ___ on various basketball exercises
  25. 38D
    Sri Lanka's capital is nearly 5,000 miles from this Italian port city
  26. 39D
    You can see a dozen of them on a cube
  27. 41D
    NBA players need to fake, steal, and hustle on the court - these folks do it off the court
  28. 42D
    Motel freebie, often
  29. 45D
    Rhyming poem "Casey at the ___"
  30. 46D
    LSAT studying is an additional responsibility you have as part of the ___-law track
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