Across
| Reality checks? | CAPTCHAS |
| Raze | FLATTEN |
| Austin Powers catchphrase | OHBEHAVE |
| Family tree | LINEAGE |
| Highway crossing | PASSOVER |
| Fail | UNDERGO |
| N.B.A. impossibility | TIE |
| Perp alert | APB |
| Mob man | DON |
| Sequentially arranged | ORDERIN |
| Explains in detail | OUTLAYS |
| Container weight allowances | TARES |
| Clever quip | EPIGRAM |
| LAX scanners (but not lax ones, one hopes) | TSA |
| Unit of cellphone reception | BAR |
| Uncle Sam’s land, informally | USOFA |
| Dating axiom … or a hint to interpreting four pairs of answers in this puzzle | OPPOSITESATTRACT |
| “Natural” at the craps table | SEVEN |
| “Unbelievable!,” in internet shorthand | SMH |
| Hypothetical degree | NTH |
| Road runners? | ENGINES |
| Jazz great Shaw | ARTIE |
| Like an impromptu remark | HANDOFF |
| Keep wearing | ONLEAVE |
| Name for two Spice Girls | MEL |
| Well-seasoned | OLD |
| Mobile ___ | APP |
| Rehearsed to perfection | PATDOWN |
| Excite, as a crowd | UPCHARGE |
| Conforming to accepted values | ETHICAL |
| Some desert dwellers | SAHARANS |
| Eerie | GHOSTLY |
| Many country-and-western dances | TWOSTEPS |
Down
| Admit (to) | COP |
| “Now I remember who sang ‘Take On Me’!” | AHA |
| “Washington Week” airer | PBS |
| One being quizzed | TESTEE |
| Conductors may conduct them | CHOIRS |
| “Never ___ ever …” | HAVEI |
| Boston’s Mass. ___ | AVE |
| Lab liquids | SERA |
| It goes viral in winter | FLUBUG |
| Director Justin of the “Fast & Furious” franchise | LIN |
| “Wait, there’s more …” | AND |
| Prop used for kickoffs | TEE |
| Entering after the bell | TARDY |
| Food items originally called Froffles | EGGOS |
| It may glow in the dark | NEON |
| Luau side dish | POI |
| Title role for Tom Hanks in 2022 | OTTO |
| Scraping tools | RASPS |
| Arrange loosely | DRAPE |
| Without ice or mixer | NEAT |
| “Agreed!” | TRUTH |
| Where trailers wind up | LAST |
| Spanish love | AMOR |
| Start to fix? | PRE |
| “You got it!” | BINGO |
| Colorful Coke brand | FANTA |
| End of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” | ACTIV |
| Place to put the dough | OVEN |
| Email function depicted with a paper plane icon | SEND |
| Brasilia-to-Rio dir. | SSE |
| Playground retort | AMSO |
| “America” pronoun | THEE |
| “I wish!” | IFONLY |
| Jets pass in it, for short | NFL |
| Lead dogs | ALPHAS |
| Split hairs again? | REPART |
| Where Lear exclaims “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!” | HEATH |
| Despite the fact that, informally | ALTHO |
| ___ cheese | NACHO |
| Video format | MPEG |
| Tidy up, in a way | DUST |
| Bad-mouth | DIS |
| L.G.B.T. History Mo. | OCT |
| Mart start | WAL |
| Dog on a cat? | PAW |
| Emmy-nominated Issa | RAE |
| Economic fig. | GNP |
| End of days? | ESS |