ACROSS
1. The Corrections author Jonathan
8. _______ Garcia Marquez (100 Years of Solitude author)
15. Fish that’s being reeled in
16. Support: var.
17. What many Americans do on Thanksgiving
18. Lowest in fat
19. Windows applications?
20. Teeny-___
22. Two-___: half-price opportunity
23. Line parts: abbr.
24. “What a pity!”
25. Major city in Maharashtra, India
26. “___ we there yet?”
27. Catch of the day, say, in New England
28. Demolishes, in Devon
29. Hilton rival
31. Most in need of a massage
32. 1957 Jack Kerouac novel
34. Military action toys
37. Places to play
41. “Why, what ___ am I!” (Hamlet’s soliloquy line)
42. Stevie of Fleetwood Mac
43. “Sorry ___ sorry”
44. Milk: prefix
45. Hocus-___
46. Word that fills both blanks of “Que ___, ___”
47. Having a high pH: abbr.
48. Russia’s ___ Autonomous Republic
49. Beckett’s Endgame: ___ in One Act
50. The Secret ______: Donna Tartt’s 1992 thriller
52. The _______ of the Day: Kazuo Ishiguro’s 1989 historical novel
54. “___ of prevention is worth a pound of cure” – Benjamin Franklin
55. Masters of the Universe planet
56. One who works with canines?
57. Slowest on the uptake
DOWN
1. Jetsam’s partner
2. French ___ (Mediterranean resort area)
3. Wasp, e.g., in Marvel Comics
4. Old-timey cry of exasperation
5. Plural form of Pulitzer Prize winner Akins, perhaps
6. Bambi’s aunt
7. Assets minus liabilities
8. Title of a 2004 Marilynne Robinson novel and the setting of The Handmaid’s Tale
9. Means to ___
10. Annual celebration, for short
11. Director Howard
12. “You can’t make me!”
13. Judaic sect linked to the Dead Sea Scrolls
14. Allow to take a nap, maybe
21. Obscure knowledge
24. Mary, Queen of ___
25. Saturday Night Live announcer Don
27. Trig ratios
28. Imitates a lion
30. Henhouse perch
31. They’re worn under sneakers
33. Came up again
34. Lancelot’s son
35. Queued up
36. The Haunting of Hill House author Shirley
38. Length of a pithy joke
39. Rick of Ghostbusters
40. Visits overnight
42. “Hold your horses!”
45. ___ nationaux: French tourist attractions comparable to U.S. Rocky Mountains and Yellowstone
46. Practices boxing
48. ____ Morrison
49. Prayer ending
51. Egyptian boy king
53. Parisian season
