A Romantic Centerpiece
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"Au ___!"
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Across
  1. 1A
    "Au ___!"
  2. 7A
    Plays an 18-Across safe
  3. 13A
    Show
  4. 14A
    Brooks or Frank Robinson
  5. 15A
    Ready for the shop?
  6. 16A
    Tried
  7. 17A
    A Swedish fish version (WHY) was introduced in 2016
  8. 18A
    Stake
  9. 20A
    "Down Along the ___" (1967 Bob Dylan tune)
  10. 21A
    Country in which Zoulfa Katouh's 2022 book "As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow" is set: Abbr.
  11. 22A
    Pancakes, e.g.
  12. 24A
    To be: Sp.
  13. 25A
    "So, Cinderella, how did you like your soiree?" "___!"
  14. 28A
    ___ de mots: Fr. for "in a few words" (and found left to right, though not consecutively, in ENTREPRENEUR)
  15. 30A
    Early homes?
  16. 33A
    Break, in a way
  17. 35A
    Birch relatives
  18. 36A
    "THIS IS ___" (James Earl Jones, that's your cue!)
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    You don't want to get in one
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    "Hopped off the plane at LAX / With the knowledge that this was the time zone in which I was presently located" ("Party in the USA" but an alternate version)
  21. 40A
    Event first held at British medieval churches around Easter
  22. 44A
    Something yours truly could have yelled when he got the idea for this meta
  23. 50A
    What a peabrain!
  24. 51A
    Jane from "Frasier"
  25. 52A
    It might be out
  26. 53A
    Blessed event?
Down
  1. 1D
    Mulligans
  2. 2D
    "___ Little Kiss" (1986 Bruce Hornsby tune)
  3. 3D
    Mature before being chosen, say
  4. 4D
    Injective : one-to-one :: surjective : ___ (thanks, Mike, I guess?)
  5. 5D
    "Look at my frozen hexahedra!" "What an ___ job!"
  6. 6D
    Eastern ___ (Oklahoma's state tree)
  7. 7D
    You'll often find jets here
  8. 8D
    Poetic preposition that I've probably clued as "Poetic preposition that I've probably clued as 'before, before' before" before
  9. 9D
    Wink in Tiddlywinks, e.g.
  10. 10D
    Comment from one who wants you to retire
  11. 11D
    Ecole student who becomes a number with one letter added
  12. 12D
    Meal consumed during Nisan
  13. 19D
    Seventh Greek letter
  14. 22D
    If you're a stretched piano string, you have to be carefully ___
  15. 23D
    Character in 1 Samuel
  16. 26D
    First word in a 1963 Chiffons hit
  17. 27D
    Inc., in England
  18. 28D
    PC Key I wish I could use in real life
  19. 29D
    Palindromic diarist
  20. 31D
    Reading, e.g., briefly
  21. 32D
    Real ending?
  22. 34D
    "The ___ Sweater" (Scott Hilburn comic)
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    Bikini and others
  24. 38D
    Member in a Numic-speaking indigenous tribe
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    Not exo-
  26. 41D
    Feds
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    Observed (as in the sentence "Some vowels in this grid aren't ___ as much as others")
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    Hook's henchman who did more for crosswords than he did for Captain Hook
  29. 44D
    Texter's "The way I see it..."
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    Pre-___ student
  31. 46D
    Swing voter: Abbr.
  32. 47D
    First lady?
  33. 48D
    ___ Percé (Columbia River Plateau tribe)
  34. 49D
    Half a fly
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