ACROSS
  • 1. Basketball-court entertainer
  • 12. 2009 Spike Lee documentary
  • 13. Vet with medals, e.g.
  • 14. Sign
  • 15. They pick up things
  • 16. Budapest-born conductor ___ Doráti
  • 19. Renter
  • 26. Cat owners' purchases
  • 28. Single-issue determinants
  • 30. Harshly criticize
  • 31. Nova ___
  • 38. One-eighty, slangily
  • 39. Annie's well-known cry
  • 42. Freshness
  • 43. Harsh mixture of sounds
DOWN
  • 1. Screwdriver, e.g.
  • 2. Big Love channel
  • 3. Ballad's end?
  • 4. Writer LeShan and others
  • 5. Habit
  • 6. Bank claim
  • 7. Quashes
  • 8. Horton Hears ___ (children's classic)
  • 9. Activist
  • 10. Makes a boo-boo
  • 11. Onetime MGM rival
  • 12. Pound's cousin
  • 13. Gauge part
  • 17. Vino region
  • 18. Native of Latvia
  • 20. Fashion line
  • 21. Tulsa coll.
  • 22. Weight abbr.
  • 23. Pencil-and-paper game
  • 24. Big cheese
  • 25. Supply line
  • 27. Pace
  • 29. Understands
  • 31. Interstate hauler
  • 32. Tams
  • 33. Oil cartel
  • 34. Novice
  • 35. Foreword: Abbr.
  • 36. "Put ___ on it!"
  • 37. Radio reporter Totenberg
  • 39. Cover
  • 40. Buddhist sect
  • 41. Very old: Abbr.