ACROSS

1 PC brains

5 Beach robe

11 Michigan, for one

12 Serengeti setting

13 Certain something

14 Like some winter days

15 Fish food

17 Water cooler

18 Allergy sound

22 Tea additive

24 Knock

25 “Do---say!”

26 Pay stub line

27 Some carpets

30 Zodiac dozen

32 Comic strip unit

33 Thurman of film

34 Second-place winner

38 Lunchbox lunch, informally

41 Script bit

42 Writer Susan

43 Kind of palm

44 Calls

45 Shortly, in poems

DOWN

1 Thunder sound

2 One of the Beatles

3 European language

4 Spooky gathering

5 Let fly

6 Financially solvent

7 European language

8 Tether

9 Play part

10 Dissenter’s vote

16 Piano part

19 European language

20 Sign

21 Makes a choice

22 Door fastener

23 Workplace watchdog: Abbr.

28 European language

29 Water channel

30 Nearest star

31 Staunton of Harry Potter films

35 Mysterious loch

36 “Do--others...”

37 Hammer end

38 Try the tea

39 Cigar bit

40 Chinese leader