ACROSS

1. More pallid

8. Ranchers?

13. Square dance group

14. Concerning

15. Smokey and the Bandit chase car

16. Type of alarm

17. They're struck after a play's done

18. Put off

20. Religious art

22. Capture

23. Denver/Burns film

26. Pulver's rank

28. Prior to

29. Went through a background check

31. Stickers

33. Hosp. places

34. PC rival

36. __ & Young

37. Tears

39. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for one

41. Birtish beauty shop employee

43. Military chow hall

47. I've __ up to here!

48. Vehicle drowned in Risky Business

50. Esses

51. Variety stores

52. __ firma

53. With Richard Lugar, he sponsored legislation to cut back on extra deadly weapons

DOWN

1. Octagonal sign word, backwards

2. Farming unit

3. Right away

4. Sawbuck

5. Monty Python opener

6. Armory

7. TV control

8. Off one's rocker

9. Not likely

10. Back to the Future time machine

11. Tangles

12. Like the triple-diamond slope

19. Castle material

21. Ditto, legally

23. Went too far

24. Birthright

25. Ferris Bueller's Day Off sports car

27. Spotted

30. Podium

32. Dark red

35. Thin pancakes

38. More conniving

40. Scent

42. Birth announcement start

44. Hosiery shade

45. Leg part

46. Actor Connery

49. Record speed

Solution