ACROSS

1 Accord

5 Flag creator

9 Spoken

11 Military info

13 Play place

14 Like snakes

15 Owns

16 Small loudspeaker

18 Craft show’s cousin

20 Slippery stuff

21 “Now you __, now you don’t”

22 Goes bad

23 Operated

24 Mafia head

25 Red-ink amount

27 Idiots

29 Go astray

30 Old newspaper district of New York

32 Cargo workers

34 Yale student

35 Preferences

36 Tequila source

38 Perfume

39 Fishing spots

40 Regarding

41 Sibilant summons

DOWN

1 Turkish bigwig

2 Church sights

3 Bike stoppers

4 Harbor craft

5 Stair part

6 In the past

7 Show interruptions

8 Choose

10 Hold up

12 Harp’s ancestors

17 Funny fellow

19 Accomplish-ment

22 Corner piece

24 Kind of fin

25 Valleys

26 Beethoven work

27 Butter unit

28 Cracks

30 Green sauce

31 Dianne of “Parenthood”

33 Car scar

37 Opening

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