Reality Check (meta)

Machiavellian notion of individual spirit and initiative

"Martial arts," in Chinese

Project Dank from New Mexico's La Cumbre Brewing Co., e.g.

It may still be smoking

Religion whose Golden Age is said to have begun with the founding of the Grand Library of Baghdad

Concession

Orange-and-white breakfast pair

Pink Floyd song that begins, "Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day"

Some big cats obey them

Groups of sentences, in journalistic slang

Glutamate sensation

19c. New England author Ann who was the second woman of color to publish a book in the US

De Armas of "Blonde"

Firm rear end?

Drag-racing class of ultra-high-performance cars that look street-legal

Relinquished (to)

"The Racer's Edge"

"It wasn't terrible, I guess"

Amplifies a Twitter post, briefly

To see, in Spanish

Overflow (with)

"Can I bend your ear for a bit?"

Denigrate

Mrs. of Montmartre

"The Velvet Fog"

___-It (orange cracker brand)

Helsinki university named for a famed Finnish architect

Beating hard

Frenemigo de un perro

Check one's ego, as might be necessary to find this puzzle's meta answer

__ snakes (group of which the inconsistently-named corn snake is a member)

___ number (level of connection to a famously prolific mathematician)

Test, as ore

Spot for speakers

Their liking is obsessive

Tommy and Annika's unsupervised friend, in a kids' book

Goose flight formation

.png or .jpg, for example

Subject of the book "I Dissent!," briefly

Like a person whose death isn't going to require the state to divide up their stuff among their survivors

Bear-shaped

___ moms (suburban cry-for-help subculture)

McCain's branch

Stone with a Family

"Later," in Spanish, very casually

'Canes' institution

"Now it's clear"

Dump

Tools inside a cell

Conversational pauses

Hitting up privately, for short

Meat in a can?

Like a 46-Across song, generally

"I'm your idol, the highest title, numero ___" (Special Ed, "I Got it Made")

Scots surname that means "son of grace"

"Hey buddy"

In the crib

Gambol

Part of a line, in geometry: abbr.

14 or 24, say

Mobile payment app with over 80M users

"Das Lied von der ___" (Mahler symphony)

Prepare to snare?

Intro to management?

Its current headline is "DJ Khaled Offering Pimped-Out Crib On Airbnb"

___ of Memnon (60-ft. statues outside Amenhotep III's tomb)

Does more than push

Critic who wrote, "A lot of fans are basically fans of fandom itself"

Non-pro sports org.

Taj Majal site

"There's no I in ___" (aphorism that does not apply to the Sixers, Marlins, Vikings...)

Directions for packets, in short

Tea

Nutritional info acronym that you might see oddly frequently in the puzzles of a constructor whose initials these also are

Hither:to::___:fro

In particular, briefly

Prime location for cat sitting?

"Just so's you knows"