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