Author: Judy Bowers
Editor: Joel Fagliano
Across
Followers of the star of Bethlehem, in the Bible MAGI
No longer working KAPUT
Family nickname SIS
Tech giant headquartered in New Taipei City ACER
Standing at 6-5, say? UPONE
$5 bill, slangily ABE
*”Yuck! I’ve dated him before. Swipe left!” OHNOEWHEISMYEX
Cry out EXCLAIM
“Mmm, that’s good!” TASTY
TikTok posting, for short VID
Leak slowly SEEP
*With 42-Across, “Well, do I decide or not?” SOISIT
Kind of training required for most city P.D.s CPR
Dangerous kind of current RIP
Machu Picchu builders INCAS
*”Follow our lead!” DOASWEDO
Certain Scotsman GAEL
Salvation ___ ARMY
Egyptian goddess often depicted with a throne on her head ISIS
*”Morning, mother!” HIMAIMUP
Voices below sopranos ALTOS
___-la-la TRA
Purchase for a college party KEG
See 23-Across UPTOME
Fleeces CONS
Employer of manicurists and massage therapists SPA
Lake northeast of Sacramento TAHOE
Fruit that resembles a small peach APRICOT
*”Can this be a gift from all of us?” OKIFWEGOINONIT
$5 bill, slangily FIN
Cake frosters ICERS
Plethora SLEW
French “a” UNE
Multilayered cake TORTE
Neophyte TYRO
Down
His portrait adorns Tiananmen Gate MAO
Dull pain ACHE
Heirs to the boomer era GENX
Classic Camaro IROC
Small coastal nation bordering Iraq KUWAIT
Rosebush pest APHID
One might begin “Roses are red …” POEM
Beginning to form? UNI
Reviewers of a beta app TESTERS
Announces the big reveal in a magic act SAYSPRESTO
Words of skepticism IBET
Hot, hot, hot SEXY
Major role in the 2023 biopic “Priscilla” ELVIS
West known for her double entendres MAE
Sterilize, as a cat SPAY
Sense that many cave-dwelling animals lack SIGHT
Sign at a radio station ONAIR
Hotel hallway convenience ICEMACHINE
Spanish for “room” SALA
Provide free of charge COMP
“Have a cow” or “hold your horses” IDIOM
Entourage POSSE
The “D” of F.D.A. DRUG
Crumble under pressure WILT
Home to Iowa State University AMES
“Ha! No surprise there!” IKNEWIT
Be ___ in the neck APAIN
Rebel UPRISE
Reaction to a gut punch OOF
Word with bad or blood SPORT
Protein categorized on a scale from “silken” to “super-firm” TOFU
About the same AKIN
Ending with screen in a modern portmanteau AGER
Expense to be paid COST
“If ___” (rueful words) ONLY
Cake layer TIER
Prefix suggesting conservation ECO
Number of letters in every word of the answers to the starred clues TWO
