ACROSS:

1. ___, get ___! Exclamatory response upon seeing a spider, perhaps
2. Brother to Groucho and Harpo M. (not Karl)
3. Sheet steel coated in element 50
4. ___ ___ here?
5. Main character of Both Sides, game in Gabrielle Zevin’s novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
6. Attempts again, as a video game
7. Remark after a successful fishing run in Dredge
8. Affirmative, in British slang
9. Removes wrinkles from, as fabric
10. Common conjunction
11. Like certain 3-downs, via round table
12. Primary psychoactive compound found in cannabis – abbr.
13. _____ Eggling, central character from A Bright Room Called Day
14. what you might want to do after a bad evening date
15. Org. monitoring public health in the U.S.
16. Malenia, rival to 19-down and Elden Ring’s goddess of ___
17. Series of One Thousand and One stories
18. Applicable to an appetite or a blade
19. Type of racing in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
20. Tiny amount
21. Currency in India or Hyrule
22. Ultimate move of Sombra in Overwatch
23. Ostentatious display
24. Private research university in Dallas
25. Org. to which John Cena and Dwayne Johnson belong
26. Help service offered by Oberlin to set and achieve academic goals – abbr.
27. Potential reason the Mudd bathrooms smell bad – abbr.
28. What Chell eventually does to the main testing rooms in the Portal series
29. Material covering approximately 72 percent of Disco Elysium’s world, or a descriptor for rare ore in Hollow Knight
30. Assists
31. What Oberlin students do with a cigarette, maybe
32. Brain scans via magnet – abbr.
33. Response to the question, “what’s Gimli drunk on?”
34. In other words, for example – abbrs.
35. Group formed after a religious schism
36. Where an eye doctor goes to sleep, abbr.?
37. Affectionate term for one who might know the answers to the theme clues

DOWN:

1. When one might expect to finish traveling – abbr.
2. Crater on Mars
3. Like the Shovel, Shield, King, or Tinker variety in an eponymous game series
4. ___ busso, veal shanks braised with vegetables, white wine, and broth
5. Higher learning institution run by alien from 1982 Spielberg film?
6. Exclamatory greeting for Allen, Curry, Burton, or Cook
7. Modern take on ancient Indian game Chaturanga
8. Bonjour, en español
9. Drone note used in Byzantine music
10. 3, 1, 1, 5, 1, 14, 14
11. Aged
12. Professional org. for American enjoyers of European football
13. One of the last two scale degrees, in solfege
14. Used to tighten screws
15. Elden Ring’s Lord of Blood
16. Despite everything, it’s still ___; quote upon mirror inspection in Undertale
17. Advocacy group for indigenous Canadians, abbr.
18. Also known as, before marriage
19. Front of stage, house left, abbr.
20. Greek goddess of magic appearing in Hades II
21. Org. tasked with monitoring power plant technical info to the U.S. government
22. What one might make a dugout canoe from
23. Like much of Bloodborne’s aesthetic
24. Popular television series starring Mark Harmon as Leroy Jethro Gibbs
25. To stumble, or take a (vacation)
26. Busy, as a market square or anthill
27. Subject and title of Plato’s dialogue on justice
28. When one might go to a cabin or host a party
29. When repeated, follows ‘om’ in onomatopoeic sound effect for eating
30. Like the world of Stray
31. Like the highways of Minnesota, Montana, or Hawaii
32. Wound produced by pointed weapon, or to take a (try) at something
33. Achievements found in a Guinness book, abbr.
34. Remote cash machine – abbr.
35. Like Dolly the Sheep
36. Doctor’s evaluation of the heart’s ability to pump blood during a workout, abbr.
37. Celebratory tuna
38. (Joined) together
39. Whether long or short, serves as a reset in Baldur’s Gate III
40. Large, flat piece of rock
41. Divine Norse antagonist of God of War: Ragnarok
42. The time before one’s time of the month
43. Plural present of ‘be’
44. ___ Lingus, Irish airline
45. Percussion synthesizer company – abbr.