Themeless. For fun, this crossword has a Japanese-style grid, where black squares cannot touch or appear in the corners, but white squares don’t need both an Across and a Down. You don’t need to know that to solve the puzzle, though.
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Word sometimes pronounced the same as an insect (apparently, for some people it varies based on whether they’re addressing a specific person or just saying the word generally)
13A
33-Across of the short-lived Republic of the Rio Grande
14A
Giving actors roles very similar to their previous ones
16A
“For real?” via text
17A
Ginger __
19A
Homer epic
21A
Word order used in the sentence "Are the letters in the answer abbreviations for subject, verb, and object?"
22A
Actor Saoirse
24A
"What We __ Each Other" (book)
26A
"Monsters, __"
27A
Fruit whose skins I ate for years when I learned I could, but later stopped because their skins actually taste terrible
29A
Gaiman whose MasterClass ad begins "Let me give you some advice. The process of doing your second draft" (then you can hit Skip Ad)
31A
A quarter has 25
33A
Washington or Monrovia (for the US and Liberia)
36A
Dessert sometimes called a bâton de Jacob
37A
Singer who has sung in ten languages (including Latin and Welsh)
38A
Stricter
39A
Treasure
Down
1D
Rodent with a bad reputation
2D
Thinks to be likely
3D
Theoretically
5D
__ del Rey (beach community)
6D
"__ in elephant…"
7D
Sciences’ counterparts
8D
Putting back into the business
9D
"The Emissary" actor
10D
Thing I was recently told to watch out for, but then immediately stepped in
12D
Car company named after a scientist
15D
Toast sound
18D
Any males in a royal family, not just the sons of monarchs
20D
Wooden rod or peg
23D
Intermissionless
25D
React to pain
28D
"Do I look like __?" (rude response to a boring comment)