This puzzle owes its title to the fact that, in service of obtaining two each of J, Q, X, and Z in the grid (per the May 2023 midi contest prompt), the letters K, V, W, and Y are all absent. So I picked a title that included all four of them. Other contenders were "Heavy Work," "You Don't Even Know," and "Take What You've Got."
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"I Want It ___" (Queen song featured in "Cobra Kai")
7A
"___ live and breathe!"
10A
Hand holder?
11A
Tell (on)
12A
UPS unit
13A
Character in "Scrubs" who interacts only with J.D. for the whole first season (because in the event that the show was canceled after one season, the creators wanted to make him a figment of J.D.'s imagination)
15A
Terrier's cry
16A
Gas, in slang
17A
Where to find Henry Cavill's Superman and Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman: Abbr.
18A
Funeral rites
21A
Express succinctly, as a central idea
24A
Idealistic but wildly impractical, like tilting at windmills
25A
Craving
26A
"___ coffee?"
30A
Actor Butterfield of "Sex Education"
31A
"Dollars to donuts..."
33A
Ending for promo- or mat-
34A
Seemingly up to something, in slang (I'm told this is already uncool to say)
35A
Split ___ (New Zealand band -- not a hair metal band, although it sounds like it should be)
36A
Double curve
37A
Med. plan
38A
Peri's role on "Frasier"
Down
1D
Holy pilgrimage
2D
German brew
3D
Luxury hotel chain
4D
Alternative to a gallery, maybe
5D
Language spoken in Vientiane
6D
USPS unit
7D
Often thorny tree
8D
"On Every ___" (Dire Straits song that begins "There's gotta be a record of you someplace")