ACROSS

1 Years gone by

5 Act restless

11 High point

12 Singer Grande

13 Pivotal point

14 Snappy retort

15 Beer dispenser

16 Suit piece

17 Move smoothly

19 Carpenter’s tool

22 Roberts of film

24 Following

26 The Emerald Isle

27 Diamond scores

28 Dance’s de Mille

30 Thesaurus author

31 Not pos.

32 Skimpy swimwear

34 Campus area

35 Jar part

38 Kidnap

41 Ocean motion

42 Garment with laces

43 Shortly, in poems

44 Pollux’s twin

45 Like an eyesore

DOWN

1 Prepare for a trip

2 Farm chunk

3 Gun-running, e.g.

4 Cowboy nickname

5 Disconcerted

6 Van Gogh work

7 Force

8 Bit of humor

9 Hydrocarbon suffix

10 Black goo

16 Through

18 Script bit

19 Getting cuddly

20 Skin woe

21 Sunset site

22 Writer Cocteau

23 Goad on

25 Steel ingredient

29 Plaster finish

30 Singer Stewart

33 Hardly a fan

34 Throw in the towel

36 Fan’s favorite

37 Refuse

38 Jackson 5 hit

39 Big snake

40 Dentist’s deg.

41 Letter after sigma

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