ACROSS

1. Study at the last minute

5. Implore

9. Strawberry seed

12. Ace in the ____

13. Easter animal?

14. Mesozoic, e.g.

15. Foal food

16. Listen up!

17. Comes before la

18. Search for gold

20. Sole

21. Highly trafficked place

23. Sermon spots

27. Peruse again

31. Bosc and Anjou

32. Pageant topper

33. Closer to pushing the envelope

35. Holy

36. Shrimp dish

38. Zits

41. Disobeyed

46. Cow's comment

47. Ticklish color

48. Trendy tea drink

49. Explorer's need

50. “… but just this ____”

51. Word on a towel

52. Cry at a bullfight

53. High school attendee

54. Desires

DOWN

1. Use a knife in the kitchen

2. Noise from the crowd

3. Low female voice

4. Predicament

5. Theater workers

6. Do a double take

7. Hose holder

8. Large deer

9. Coin for Carlos

10. It might rust

11. Imported ____ ale

19. Astronomer's unit

20. Songlike

22. Not wholesale

23. King Kong, for one

24. Was CEO for

25. Chasing game

26. End one's slumber

28. Carol Burnett's thing to tug

29. “We ____ the World”

30. Mom's mate

34. Canyon

35. “Wiser words were never ____”

37. No-no for words

38. Armory stash

39. Santa's “Sorry!”

40. Not yup

42. Twinging

43. “My Country 'Tis of ____”

44. Get via hard work

45. Badmouth

47. Cauldron

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