"Just Smile and ___ Y'all." (Dejected r/teachers flair)
19A
___ de Armas, actress that's going to star in Ballerina (2025)
20A
The season to be jolly?
21A
___ feed
22A
Field that is common in South and Eastern Asia
29A
Political manipulator
30A
White stuff that might end up on your face
31A
Tryst, say
32A
Revises for readability
33A
He said that "Women hold up half the sky" (wait no i dont actually revere this guy i swear NSA pls u gotta believe me i)
34A
Period when the number representing the year would decrease with time, for short
37A
A round peg would not do this in a square hole
38A
"Stop acting!"
41A
Troy Coll.
44A
Pacific ___ (Film)
45A
Tucson athletes
49A
American soap opera that ran for 11,136 episodes
50A
British summer setting, for short (as it is sometimes called, apparently)
51A
Not yet set in stone, for short
52A
Yannick ___ (Organizer of the 2024 MIT Integration Bee who appears prominently in the official livestream)
Verticales
1D
Gnats and such
2D
Rascal
3D
Nein but farther east
4D
"See ya!" across the pond
5D
___-mo
6D
Move letters left or right
7D
Slightly
8D
Screwed
9D
"Have at thee!"
10D
You get some kind of Jewish temple when you Google this but that would be an unfair clue and it's my fault that this fill is questionable so I'll tell you that it's an anagram of BAIN
11D
DVD predecessor
12D
Greenpeace, say, for short
13D
Microscopic
14D
Cousin that I only know of from doing crosswords
15D
Trimming the Herbs was correctly accused of being a level created using one, for short
22D
___ Zellweger
23D
Gloomy "How are you feeling?" response
24D
Crops that can be used to make a Minecraft XP farm
25D
Bird that's one letter away from being rueful
26D
Poe and Dickinson, for example
27D
James ___ (He wrote A Death in the Family)
28D
Finished, as a texter might say
29D
Poop, to a tot
30D
Mar. opposite, in a way
31D
Playing your own horn, perhaps
32D
Pentagonal tiling named after a capital in Africa
33D
Creative degree, for short
34D
B over the phone?
35D
Write [1], say
36D
Their logo features the Star of Life, for short
38D
Young male horse
39D
It may come before sex
40D
He was defeated by Wilson
41D
___'s Italian Ice
42D
Mahmoud Abbas is its chairman, for short
43D
In a hardly working way instead of working hardly, perhaps