ACROSS

1. A long time

4. From California to D.C.

8. Cushion

11. We be

12. Wildcat

13. “A long time ____”

14. Dance like Gregory Hines

15. Pants presser

16. Cherry center

17. With morals

19. Barroom drink

20. Oboe attachment

21. Called on the phone

24. Clothes for cool weather

27. Type of liqueur

30. Remove the unartistic part

33. Apiece

35. Family

36. In need of a drink

39. Combine

40. Ninny

41. Tree juice

42. Golf ball perch

43. Lounge

44. Night before

45. To ____ is human

46. Applications

47. Administered

DOWN

1. Restaurant patron

2. Talks to be heard

3. Sibling's lad

4. Expensive movie

5. Subtle quality

6. Slow burn

7. Result of sun worship?

8. Like some religious decrees

9. Able to move about easily

10. Loved to excess

18. Perfect

22. Anger

23. Fall flower

25. Concert need

26. Body art

28. Graduate's frill

29. C to C

30. Fleming's footwear

31. Apple drink

32. Beneath

34. Oversold

37. Opening

38. The bad stuff

40. It'll make you sick

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