ACROSS
1. Seek the affection of
4. Circle segments
8. Marshes
12. Hem’s partner
13. Bath need
14. Diabolic
15. Neighbor of Texas
17. Grand party
18. Toddler
19. Christmas decoration
20. Subside
23. Ruckus
25. To the briny
26. Hit hard
27. Took a load off
30. Ship
32. Curiously
34. Some are personal
35. Three-piece-suit part
37. Clean erasers
38. Certain amphibian
39. Red bloom
40. Daddies
43. Saber’s kin
46. Malt drinks
47. Cheerio!
51. Pinch
52. Favorite star
53. Anguish
54. Virginia dance
55. Sports facilities
56. Humpty Dumpty, e.g.
DOWN
1. “The Spy ____ Loved Me”
2. Acorn producer
3. Wise bird
4. Pale
5. Chess piece
6. Tourist’s must
7. Hot spring
8. Sired
9. Arena shape
10. Fish lung
11. Do in, as a dragon
16. Book of maps
19. Santa’s comment
20. Volcano output
21. Hired
22. Minus
24. “____ It a Pity?”
26. Blustered
27. Fodder storage area
28. Regretful word
29. Sort
31. Preceding nights
33. Threaded nail
36. Consistent
38. Medicated spray
40. Two of a kind
41. Shampoo ingredient
42. Bowler Weber
44. Teenage dance
45. Snakelike fish
47. ____ Newton
48. Wool grower
49. Skipper’s diary
50. Lower limb