Douchecanoes (or I guess "Detectives" if you want to go with the "clean" definition of the word)

Govt. agy. authorized by the American Constitution

Bit of poolside protection

Horn-y sound?

______ di Mare (Italian fashion brand)

Like some cookies with raisins or chocolate chips

Pointer's pick

Hurdle for a future M.B.A.

Chinese Nationalist leader Sun ___-sen

HDTV shape: Abbr.

Canada, jocularly

Jennifer Hudson accomplishment as of 2022

She, in Recife

Flim-____

Letters with "0" on most landline phones

Ruffle some feathers

Lion, jaguar, or panther

With 28-Down, knocking noise

Standard performed by Beyoncé during Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration...or what's seen in 17 of this puzzle's answers

"You gonna eat your ____?" (Line from the title character to Pedro in "Napoleon Dynamite")

Place for grills

Home to Duke University

Con in the can

Shoot the shit

Half a candy bar?

"The Rumble" between the Sharks and Jets in "West Side Story," e.g.

Vessels mentioned in "Springtime for Hitler" from "The Producers"

It's frequently left hanging

One-note S.N.L. character played by Julia Sweeney who probably wouldn't (nor shouldn't) exist today

This place stinks!

Truth, in Sanskrit (it's also an anagram of a popular Southeast Asian appetizer with sliced meat on a skewer...and now I'm hungry)

Hurdle for a future Dr.

Home to the University of Latvia

Subleases

One digging jive, man

"Freak on ______" (1999 Korn hit)

"The Goldfinch" author Donna

Formerly fizzy

Be a creep

See 32-Across

Judge portrayed by Kenneth Choi in the first season of "American Crime Story"

Meteor's tail?