ACROSS
  • 1. Emo boy's makeup
  • 9. Montreal Canadiens' nickname
  • 13. Twenty, to Abraham Lincoln
  • 14. "Zip- ___ -Doo-Dah"
  • 15. Transitional zones between different plant communities
  • 16. Champ's boast
  • 17. Friend of Frodo
  • 18. Unhelpful reply to a reporter
  • 20. "I hate to break up ___"
  • 22. Houston baseballer, slangily
  • 23. DDE's command
  • 24. Coffee-break time
  • 26. Infatuated with
  • 28. Popular cooking spray
  • 30. Camera type, briefly
  • 31. Verizon, for one
  • 35. Remove the pitch from
  • 39. Sign of a big crowd
  • 40. Georgetown player
  • 42. Gardner of mysteries
  • 43. North Korean president spoofed in Team America
  • 46. Unreturnable serve
  • 47. High schooler
  • 48. Places to go in Mexico?
  • 50. Fast-moving card game
  • 51. Muslim
  • 52. Okla. neighbor
  • 53. Jimmy Fallon's backup band
DOWN
  • 1. Attacks
  • 2. Take out, as wine bottles
  • 3. Some petty officers
  • 4. WWII vessel
  • 5. Religious figure
  • 6. Taboos
  • 7. Puts up
  • 8. In places
  • 9. One of the Coreys on The Two Coreys
  • 10. Reading matter along Madison Avenue
  • 11. Understand now, as someone's tricks
  • 12. Forwarded
  • 19. Singer-songwriter Bob formerly of Hüsker Dü
  • 21. It comes in a roll
  • 25. Hairy-chested
  • 27. Algonquian Indian
  • 29. Like a romantic evening, maybe
  • 31. "You should really know better!"
  • 32. Northern terminus of I-79
  • 33. Chinese dish
  • 34. "Heavens!"
  • 36. Romantic plotter in The Taming of the Shrew
  • 37. Jo's Boys author
  • 38. Hershey Foods brand
  • 41. Bridal path
  • 44. Hips, e.g.: Abbr.
  • 45. Beam with a 90-degree bend
  • 49. Latin I word