ACROSS
  • 1. Spawning ground of Atlantic eels
  • 12. Rock band with the 2008 album Dear Science
  • 14. Earth-scanning satellites, e.g.
  • 16. Playwright Clifford
  • 17. Murphy's ___
  • 18. Reduce to tears, maybe
  • 19. Bikini atoll, once
  • 24. Coldplay producer Brian
  • 25. Discontinued
  • 26. Reliever Rivera
  • 27. Where Manny Ramirez plays
  • 30. Domino dot
  • 33. Sort of
  • 34. Soaking site
  • 35. Aardvark's tidbit
  • 36. Judge, at times
  • 37. Her Secret Service code name is "Renaissance"
  • 43. Supermarket desserts
  • 44. Hitches
DOWN
  • 1. Dance floor light
  • 2. Photographer Richard
  • 3. Horror film director George
  • 4. Thou
  • 5. ABA members
  • 6. Miss, e.g.
  • 7. French pronoun
  • 8. Something to pick
  • 9. ___ Pedro
  • 10. Mag. wheels
  • 11. Garlicky sauces
  • 13. Magniloquize
  • 15. Scand. language
  • 19. Shroud of ___
  • 20. Iroquois' foes
  • 21. Map feature
  • 22. Care for
  • 23. ___ Paulo
  • 25. Risk-free
  • 26. High points: Abbr.
  • 27. Actor Neeson
  • 28. Bandleader Skinnay ___
  • 29. Big shot
  • 30. Cuomo's successor
  • 31. Detailed
  • 32. Wheel of Fortune category
  • 34. Storied royal elephant
  • 36. ___-Fella records
  • 38. Princely initials
  • 39. Dijon water
  • 40. 5-Down's degree
  • 41. Neighbor of Syr.
  • 42. Some Caltech grads