ACROSS

1 Diamond corners

6 Sleepy mammal

11 Bert’s pal

12 “Beetlejuice” girl

13 Squirrel’s find

14 Rival

15 Setting of Thomas Hardy novels

17 Back muscle

19 Caribou’s kin

20 Weed whacker

23 Designer Pucci

25 Spigots

26 Rangers’ worries

28 Grove growth

29 Frozen plain

30 “For sure!”

31 Director Anderson

32 Method

33 Famed Florentine family

35 Eggs purchase

38 Tadpole, e.g.

41 In the future

42 Supine protest

43 Boxer Liston

44 Miniature map

DOWN

1 Arthur of TV

2 Compass trace

3 Some are studded

4 Cork’s country

5 Dojo VIPs

6 Glossy

7 Bobcat’s kin

8 Lyric poem

9 Dickens boy

10 Cow chow

16 Like some spoons

17 Southpaw

18 Love, in Livorno

20 Makes automatic, as a behavior

21 Sung drama

22 School paper

24 “Crooklyn” director

25 Badge metal

27 Edible spirals

31 Friend of Peter

33 Cruel

34 Early farmer

35 German article

36 Cry of surprise

37 Meditative school

39 Contend

40 Industrious one