___ oil (pain remedy)

One singular university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts

Liver or brain bits

___ Coster, co-creator of Guess Who? and the Pop-It fidget toy

With 5-Down, a Western US Big Ten Conference football team

Spwintews, e.g.

...as opposed to the environment in Temple Run

Food that Shrek likens ogres to

Masonna genre

Taiwanese company in the 37-Across industry

The Jackson 5 seem to know theirs

Christmassy drink, casually

...as opposed to the one that you could play as on a Nokia phone

Save for later, in a way

Nah, in Novosibirsk

Honey

...as opposed to Lara Croft

See 21-Across

"You know what they say: gambling addiction is a ___, and you don't wanna poke 'er" -Riley Savage of Hivemind

___ of the Day (rapper and musician Quadeca's occasional guest segment on Hivemind)

...as opposed to the one where all of your Sims live

Pig's digs

"Uncontrollable ___" (Devo song)

"Sacre ___"

Definer of a vector space, in math

“There are actual, serious issues going on here!”... or a hint to the puzzle's theme

Partner for a deejay at b'nai mitzvah parties

Useful things for the actors in the stage play Billiards that definitely exists

"Yeah yeah, ___ it up!"

Snoops (around)

Certain sports spasms, with "the"

Word hidden in the previous across clue

Christmassy drinks, casually

Peyton Manning was one

"Hi, How Are You" musician Johnston

Go in Go, perhaps

See 14-Across

Like a cat categorized as "OH LAWD HE COMIN" on the Feline Chonk Chart

Jazz group?

Thelma's girlfriend I think idk haven't seen it

Verb that retains its meaning when the first letter is changed to the letter that follows it in the alphabet

Identifying with being both male and female, e.g.

Word removed from this Beetle Moses comic: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1kSN5SUTTtPMCEZIJ2vjQVfiuGE5TkChvg4Xc47MjhjI/edit?usp=sharing

~5:00

Whence the addressees of two Pauline epistles

Peyton Manning is one

Not for

Office shape

"It's that goddamn Shiba Inu again, I swear to god I'm gonna unleash some horrors onto him... if I could ever be unleashed to begin with"

Type of Minecraft item that can be used to color Shulker boxes

To be in Equatorial Guinea? (if you haven't caught on already, one of my favorite things to do in my puzzles is use Equatorial Guinea as an indicator for "in Spanish". did you know that Equatorial Guinea is the only African country whose official languag- *is actively getting pulled offstage with a cane*)

Admonishing title that Cy gives to Aloysius O'Hare in "Let It Grow" from The Lorax

___daddy69420 (crossword constructor)

Alternative to polish

Physically up to it

Actor Jung-jae of Squid Game

"___ Pedal" (Sage the Gemini hit)

Channel that Impractical Jokers moved to from truTV

Currency in Link: The Faces of Evil

Mixes up Emilio Estevez and Enrique Iglesias, like I somehow almost did while trying to come up with a clue for 18-Down, perhaps

OWCA, e.g.

Minecraft mobs that collect items to give to the player

Form an alliance

"Got it!"

"Got it!"

"Whisk thoroughly", e.g.

Elliot of The Mamas & The Papas

Number of Summoner's Tales in the title of a Sting album with – you guessed it – 12 tracks

Someone who wants to be contacted : HMU :: a volleyball : ___

"You bet your ass", in Djibouti