ACROSS
  • 1. Popular diet soft drink
  • 9. The Hangover star Galifianakis
  • 13. Like some T-shirt art
  • 14. Atlas section
  • 15. Small amount
  • 16. 1990s cartoon Dr. ____
  • 17. Steamy
  • 18. Staples Center player
  • 20. Matchsticks game
  • 21. Lodge fellows
  • 23. "___ Prayer" (1990 hit)
  • 24. Picker upper
  • 25. Volleyballer/model Gabrielle
  • 27. Having the most rain
  • 29. Amusement park features
  • 31. Presumed Innocent star Brian
  • 34. Ladies of La Coruña
  • 38. Map abbr.
  • 39. ___ San Lucas
  • 41. Pink
  • 42. It's full of periods
  • 43. Old waste allowances
  • 45. Lacking value
  • 46. Blowgun missile
  • 48. Oversleeper's excuse
  • 50. First family member
  • 51. Business related
  • 52. abominable snowman
  • 53. You don't want to be on it
DOWN
  • 1. Zero
  • 2. Jim Palmer, once
  • 3. Guitarist Leo, known for his idiosyncratic fingerpicking
  • 4. Tolkien creature
  • 5. Fire
  • 6. Writers Ferber and O'Brien
  • 7. Ramones classic that begins "Chewing out a rhythm on my bubble gum"
  • 8. Like the jack of hearts
  • 9. Ringo's drummer son
  • 10. Cornerback Samuel who won two Super Bowl rings with the Patriots
  • 11. Municipalities
  • 12. Dangerous stuff, to the DOT
  • 19. Deserved
  • 22. Scrutinize
  • 26. At attention
  • 28. Nicholas II was the last one
  • 30. "Buck" Williams
  • 31. 1993 rap hit with the repeated lyric "Bow wow wow yippy yo yippy yay"
  • 32. Online brokerage since 1993
  • 33. ___ hand (close)
  • 35. Pal o' mine, in Paris
  • 36. The way things stand
  • 37. Prime
  • 40. 10th-century Holy Roman emperor
  • 44. In the mail
  • 47. "Don't wanna hear it!"
  • 49. U.S. currency: Abbr.