Crossword

Across

1. Season to be jolly

5. Unlikely to mingle

8. Kind of approval

11. Saturn or Mercury

12. Card dispenser

13. Cereal grain

14. Big-time boasters

16. Brazilian hot spot

17. Matter of debate 18. Paranormal ability

19. Former star of the show referenced in 33 Across and 25 Down

23. Make off-limits

24. Like the egg yolk in a great Eggs Benedict

27. Rip away one’s courage

30. Early bloomers

31. Clear a windshield in January 32. Take the gold

33. With 25 Down, a long-running police procedural

39. Something dropped in the ‘60s 41. Live’s partner

42. Legolas or Galadriel 43. Someone that doesn’t fit in

47. Old French coin

48. 1998 disaster flick “___ Impact” 49. Guesstimate phrase

50. No. on a business card

51. Lt.’s subordinate

52. Wine label info

Down

1. Bag a robber

2. “Days of ___ Lives”

3. In-flight announcement

4. Spock’s specialty

5. Garden plant

6. Former Gordon Ramsay series “___

Hell”

7. “Sounds good to me”

8. Predicted well before

9. Speaker’s platform

10. Looking down from

12. Mouth off to

15. Fed. property manager

19. Superman’s Lois

20. Blissfully unaware

21. Line made with a compass

22. Mangy mutt

23. Beer brand, informally

25. With 33 Across, a long-running police procedural

26. Yang’s counterpart

28. Trick taker

29. Like a TV show in its first season 34. Of days long gone

35. Gives the king counsel

36. Light source

37. Time in history

38. What a younger brother might do 39. “___ we forget”

40. ___ gin fizz

43. Words of praise

44. Refinable rock

45. Can. neighbor

46. Rocky prominence