ACROSS

1 Parcel (out)

5 TV viewing spot

9 Last

10 Wise saying

12 Spoken exams

13 Messing of “Will & Grace”

14 They may run underground

16 Give permission to

17 Hideous

18 Plains homes

21 Call on

22 Loving touch

23 Hooded snake

24 Bar perches

26 Slump

29 Paper fastener

30 Surrounding glow

31 Ball

32 Dark-furred martens

34 Buffalo team

37 Piglet’s creator

38 Command to Fido

39 Notions

40 Catch sight of

41 Bears’ lairs

DOWN

1 Desert sight

2 Make possible

3 Add the score

4 Different

5 Feeling down

6 Exalted poem

7 Aesop’s stories

8 Concurs

9 Concentrate

11 Has dinner

15 Horse homes

19 Makes mistakes

20 Stew sphere

22 Chilled

23 Member of the force

24 Rank indicator

25 Café fixtures

26 Morose

27 Sports sites

28 Neon and helium

29 Laments loudly

30 Tolerate

33 Surrounded by

35 Track circuit

36 Cloud setting

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