ACROSS
1. Glided
5. Small insect
9. Lump
12. Compassion
13. Hurry
14. Epoch
15. Prayer finale
16. Musical group
18. Mexican dish
20. Pencil end
21. Horror-movie star
23. Rifle attachment
26. Broom’s relative
29. Needle aperture
30. Dirt
33. “Much ____ About Nothing”
34. Obtain
35. Fastened
37. Estimated
40. Applaud
43. Floats
47. Women’s sleepwear
49. Larry, Curly, and Moe
50. Pick
51. Chinese staple
52. Profit
53. Casual shirt
54. Plant beginning
55. Changes colors
DOWN
1. Petty dispute
2. Certain bean
3. Part of a list
4. Energetic person
5. More lush
6. Convent dweller
7. Investment
8. Neither here nor ____
9. Chews the fat
10. Peer
11. Pub drink
17. Damage
19. Yearn
22. Moves
23. Ask earnestly
24. Pro vote
25. Up to this time
26. Small rug
27. Poem
28. Seed coat
31. Offense
32. Eternally
36. Revised copy
37. Band booking
38. Consumers
39. Bizarre
40. Parcel
41. Full-grown
42. Poker word
44. Ravel
45. Exhaust
46. Male heirs
48. Drink chiller
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