ACROSS
BearABIDE
Useful connectionsINS
What was that?AGAIN
Measuring cup materialPYREX
Pub owner on Ted LassoMAE
Thrusting weaponLANCE
Rare state of the worldPEACE
Boring thingBIT
Thus farASYET
Tactic to try to save one’s own skinESHIFTING
Loud soundBLAM
Ghosts playwrightIBSEN
Truckee Riverwalk locationRENO
Element of some wall paintsOILBASE
Right in a wayETHICAL
Sites for balls and strikesALLEYS
Auto competition on public roadsRALLYE
Afternoon energizerERNAP
It’s sticky on a stickLOLLI
Loud soundPOW
Spanish savoriesTAPAS
Loud soundPOP
Not just callRAISE
FixedSET
Two-time winner of the FIFA World Cup Golden BallMESSI
Welles who directed a radio adaptation of WellsORSON
What did I tell you?SEE
Act the dandyPREEN
Deals a crushing blow and a hint to this puzzle’s themeLOWERSTHE
Bill stopperVETO
British Columbia neighborIDAHO
Loud soundBOOM
Its provinces include Qazvin and QomIRAN
Gently pullTUGON
Language that gives us khakiURDU
Signal to eat perhapsPANG
Unleashes as expletivesSPEWS
Look to beSEEM
DOWN
Coder’s creationAPP
Seed’s rewardBYE
He wrote lyrics for some of George’s tunesIRA
Last page sometimesDECEMBER
Couple once decoupledEXES
Gulp downIMBIBE
Ingenuous onesNAIFS
Parlor fixtureSETTEE
Ruck of SuccessionALAN
Weber productGASGRILL
One or moreANY
Driving hazardICE
Pay stub categoryNET
Warn feline-styleHISSAT
Courses for beginnersINTROS
Reptile that bears live youngBOA
Rap’s ___ Nas XLIL
Grandpa Munster’s portrayerALLEWIS
Sun block?ECLIPSE
Opposition answerNAY
Corrida cryOLE
Name on Atlas Shrugged coversAYN
I’m sorry Dave I’m afraid I can’t do that speakerHAL
DeclinedPASSEDUP
Midnight movieLATESHOW
Course figurePRO
Outrigger implementOAR
Titled groupPEERAGE
Sugar suffixOSE
Grenade partPIN
Toodles!SOLONG
Ambient music pioneer BrianENO
Road sign abbr.MPH
Primeval god of darknessEREBUS
Common senseWITS
A bunchTONS
Big wheelVIP
Important timeERA
Camel’s kinTAN
Vein fillORE
Lofty poemODE
Tight-lippedMUM
