1960s craze featuring four mop-topped Liverpudlians
35A
"Sesame Street" muppet with a fondness for baths
36A
Actors Ryan or Tatum
37A
Hackneyed
38A
Hackneyed
Down
1D
Hackneyed
2D
Ancient Anatolian area
3D
Oxidizes
4D
Suffix incorrectly (but humorously) used with "good" and "best"
5D
Pop star Jason with more than 57 million TikTok followers
6D
Apt letters missing from "__t_an _ounds"
7D
Actor Vigoda who, despite numerous reports of his death dating back to 1982, actually died in 2016
8D
Onetime iPod models
9D
Cause a scene
10D
Put one's house on the market
14D
Like the Finger Lakes vis-a-vis New York City
19D
Call off
20D
N.Y. Congresswoman, for short
22D
Swiffer Sweeper, e.g.
23D
Work of Verdi or Puccini
24D
Wasn't vertical
26D
Underwear brand that once featured a commercial with Michael Jordan sporting a Hitler mustache (it's not that hard not to have a Hitler mustache...like seriously, M.J., WTF?)
27D
Inventor Howe
28D
Hackneyed
29D
Resting
30D
Go downhill?
33D
Frequent Father's Day gift
34D
Feminine name found in "pomegranate"
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Fun - took me back, um, almost 50 years to my days on our high school paper, when the editor-in-chief used to find many submissions "hackneyed, banal, and trite."