ACROSS

1 Track event

5 Lands in the sea

10 Vigorous spirit

11 Sung dramas

13 Ilk

14 Dawning period

15 Resistance to change

17 401, in Rome

18 Annual celebration

19 Light metal

20 Summer cooler

21 Smallville family name

22 Sales pitch

25 Hands over

26 Jab

27 Foot part

28 Baseball score

29 Rhode Island city

33 Anger

34 About to be a mother

35 Soothing music style

37 Surfer’s ride

38 Hot dish support

39 Grace finish

40 Flag features

41 Croquet setting

DOWN

1 Pine product

2 Without help

3 Baseball’s Rod

4 Cost to compete

5 Sea between Italy and Greece

6 Asparagus unit

7 Detective Archer

8 Built

9 Fish in a can

12 New Orleans team

16 Blue hue

21 Ward off

22 Quick run

23 Sommeliers, at times

24 “Told you!”

25 Monk’s hood

27 Beliefs

29 Chad neighbor

30 44th president

31 Wanderer

32 Leaning

36 Director DuVernay

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