ACROSS

1 Part maker

5 Small tree

10 Lotion additive

11 Relaxed

12 Writer Uris

13 Chinese food veggie

14 Texas flag symbol

16 Prominent player

20 Marbles, so to speak

23 Drink with a head

24 Penned

25 Was wide-open

27 Longevity

28 Comes up

29 Navigating aid

32 Reward for good schoolwork

36 Portugal’s place

39 Swaying dance

40 Carouses

41 “Yeah, right!”

42 “Endymion” poet

43 Tempo

DOWN

1 Ref’s decision

2 Bread spread

3 Earth circler

4 Charity event

5 Iron output

6 Learns about

7 Cardi B specialty

8 Gl-enter-taining grp.

9 Nap location

11 In a fitting way

15 Location

17 Spigots

18 Out of the wind

19 Cincinnati team

20 Trade

21 Best Picture winner in 2013

22 Seasonal song

25 June celebrant

26 Zeppelin

28 Travel aid

30 Snowy wader

31 Planting bases

33 Oompah producer

34 Guinness of movies

35 Assess

36 Tick off

37 Worker, e.g.

38 Longoria of TV

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