ACROSS
- 1. Accelerated
- 8. Marshlands
- 13. Bit of wishful thinking
- 14. Useful quality
- 15. Picks up on
- 16. Seed covering
- 17. Role-players?
- 18. Pretentious
- 19. Less believable
- 21. "___ Poetica"
- 22. Okays in Oaxaca
- 26. Forgot about
- 28. General ___ chicken
- 29. Periodontist's deg.
- 30. Posterior
- 31. She's a nobody
- 33. Passionate way to be in love
- 34. Geisha's sash
- 35. Premature
- 37. E-mails
- 39. Must
- 44. Dallas matriarch
- 45. For a long time
- 46. Come in second
- 47. Be scornful of
- 48. Hemmed and ___
- 49. Website with the motto "A place for friends"
DOWN
- 1. Make change?
- 2. "Oops!"
- 3. November urging
- 4. Huge scale
- 5. Colorful stickers
- 6. ___ hammer on (pounds)
- 7. Style of art that combines features of many recent techniques
- 8. Persian Gulf dweller
- 9. Rehab clinic patient
- 10. Per prior mention
- 11. Faces facts
- 12. Comes in out of the rain
- 20. 911 response org.
- 22. His feast day is March 19
- 23. Queen who sponsored Columbus's expedition
- 24. Family reunion attendee
- 25. British verb ending
- 27. Sung syllable
- 29. ER pronouncement
- 32. Remove the pits from
- 33. "Doctor ___" (1972 Jackson Browne hit)
- 36. One of Homer's coworkers at the Springfield Power Plant
- 38. They're spotted at casinos
- 40. Worth thinking about
- 41. Tegan's musical partner
- 42. ___ II (razor brand)
- 43. Bone: prefix