puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Spot on sth

  4 Chest muscle, briefly

  7 Uninspiring

 12 "That's ___-brainer!"

 13 Liquid bottled in France

 14 Gadget

 15 Bad cooking fat?

 17 Iron and Bronze, e.g., in Spanglish?

 18 Earlier

 19 Gave a hand?

 21 A honorific

 22 Parking lot vehicles

 23 Overdue

 24 Snowboard alternatives

 25 Procedure part

 26 Get out of bed

 27 What a soldier serves

 28 Hogwash

 30 Performed terribly

 31 How most fields are plowed?

 33 Is less serious in comparison

 34 Daytime TV dramas

 35 Honors with a party

 36 ___-up job

 37 Wife of Zeus

 41 Middle-earth marauders

 42 The red, financially

 43 Happy and Grumpy's work sites

 44 FICA funds it

 45 Thereafter

 46 Of the eye

 47 Opening that admits sunlight, in Spanglish?

 49 What bland stuffing could use, in Spanglish?

 51 Type of skate

 52 Filled dessert

 53 Roadside lodging

 54 Zapped with light

 55 "Do. Or do not. There is no ___." (Yoda)

 56 Tab for a trip?


DOWN

  1 South American grasslands

  2 Hopelessly stuck

  3 Opposite of rude, or showing nice manner?

  4 Boscs and Bartletts

  5 Corn serving

  6 More soft and fluffy

  7 Word after "safety" or "sweater"

  8 DuVernay, someone who does somthing about moving images

  9 Gridiron balls

 10 Place to view Lutzes and Salchows

 11 Cease

 14 Pineapple company

 16 Contractual ambiguities

 17 Sweet fruit, or an outing with a sweetheart

 20 A walk in the park

 24 Enterprise and others

 26 Decomposes

 27 Cease

 29 Change for a five

 30 Bambi's dad, what's the name? e.g.

 31 Shouts of disapproval

 32 What a lawyer might be found in

 33 Public image

 35 Item dug up in a dig

 36 Flexed

 38 Necessitate

 39 Sits on the throne

 40 Approach the summit

 42 Eat at a steakhouse, say

 43 Amble

 45 Put in the mail

 48 Compete

 50 Broadcast, or something very essential to life

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