like a bunch of the words in this puzzle but not this one
22A
apostrophitopical request
25A
"so basically if you open your f***ing eyes"
28A
scary type of bear
29A
online user who may use a picture of a frog, like my friend who literally just posted about planned governmental assassinations but no one caught him yet
30A
like th
34A
what i'm going with my fiancée
35A
piñata filling?
36A
"it's a gizmo..." (reaction of the gender reveal party guests when the confetti came out gray)
37A
emotional t.j. miller role
38A
turn... um, how else do i say this, um, so you know off, but not the bug spray brand but like the preposition - is that what a preposition is? - anyway that word it's the opposite of that but if you can't remember it's like the difference between doff and don
42A
dgr series
43A
contents of some parentheticals (which is not a portmanteau for theoretical parents, which is what i have because i was orphaned after a disastrous and confusing gender reveal party)
Verticali
1D
Haircuts for horses
2D
"__ we a pair?"
3D
Buying location
4D
What you have to finish this puzzle
5D
Brand that's bricked up
6D
Repetitively-named Star Wars craft
7D
Snake's sound that I will apologize for, but only because we're still on the nice side of the grid
13D
french for "after me", which is kind of a selfish thing to say but whatevs
14D
spanish rivers (if you don't speak languages, this must be a really hard section for you, i'm sorry)
15D
surname on lots of wanted posters in star wars, probably
16D
abbreviation that drops the letters omane
17D
__ ass
18D
la femme fatale, perhaps (read this parenthetical in a french accent too, it makes me feel like i'm in a small cameo role in ratatouille)
23D
diss integrate?
24D
me to your mom direction
25D
true abbreviation unless you make the b stand for brotastic which they are NOT
26D
home speaker company created by some struggling crossword constructor, i assume
27D
"Oh? Boss fight. Anyone could have predicted your lost.
Like, good idea! Hypnotize furry __" (my opponent's line in mothman vs queen from deltarune, in a rap battle tournament, which i won [i was the queen, so this line is from mothman])
31D
ear-ring?
32D
i don't know how this is even shortened from the same name as his two friends, but whatever
33D
ominous threat
36D
gaming character that's just like me fr
38D
pig-based card game i just came up with
39D
nickname for robert from the block
40D
"__..." (excerpt from a quote)
41D
i didn't sign one, technically, because i spelled it wrong, so i can tell you all about the project i worked on, sesame street: armageddo- elmo pulls me behind counter, shoots me in the leg