ACROSS

1 Hay sites

6 Stylist’s spot

11 “Cats” poet

12 Banish

13 Film category

14 African grassland

15 Tooth layer

17 Gadot of “Wonder Woman”

19 Impair

20 Diet no-no

23 Out of bed

25 Trig function

26 They say they’re free, in life

28 Yard units

29 Flip

30 Snaky shape

31 Cove

32 Stew sphere

33 Bill collector, of a sort

35 November birthstone

38 Heep of fiction

41 Not dozing

42 Simpleton

43 Floppy cap

44 Door sign

DOWN

1 Relay section

2 Corrida cry

3 Small distinctions

4 Tattered

5 Clambake clam

6 Cut off

7 Skating jump

8 Rap’s ___ Nas X

9 Outdated

10 Pay stub line

16 Snare

17 Social blunder

18 Spring sign

20 Contract details

21 Trig topic

22 Physicist Nikola

24 Ready to go

25 Pop’s daughter

27 Hit song of 1968

31 “Carmen” composer

33 Confiscate

34 Give ______ for one’s money

35 Bar bill

36 Need to pay

37 Golf goal

39 Hole in one

40 That woman

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