ACROSS
1 Government probe org.?
5 “My bad!”
15 Famous ___ cookies
16 Total ecstasy’s opposite
17 Sassy
18 American or Spirit
19 Rectangular replacement for a square meal
21 Perfect or present
22 ___ Doone cookies
23 Polish language?
25 Jinx
27 Polite address with an apostrophe
28 Hoppy beer, for short
31 “Don’t worry”
32 Like some holey sweaters
34 Ungendered pronoun
35 Part of 28-Across
36 Defeatist’s word
37 Caribbean dances spelled similarly to French cookies
40 “When We Were Very Young” author A.A.
41 Triage sites in a hosp.
42 Pointy parts of elves
43 Women
44 Ubud Monkey Forest’s Indonesian island
45 Sealy competitor
46 Woolgather?
49 LAX employees with strict rules
53 The One Ring, to Gollum
55 Stand-up pioneer Mort
56 Like software that can be freely modified
57 Timber source
58 Deteriorates
59 Hearty bowlful
DOWN
1 Where to pick up the pick of the litter
2 Prayer ending
3 Gamers who rage-quit, e.g.
4 Former stadium for Houston’s MLB team
5 “In my opinion, we shouldn’t”
6 ___ Inu (Akita’s smaller cousin)
7 Michael of “Juno”
8 Makes again
9 Important stretch
10 What precedes a period of peace
11 “Snowy” bird
12 Slay
13 French ones
14 Funeral blaze
20 Understand, informally
24 “Well, lah-di-___!”
25 Blackjack order
26 Last option on a survey, often
27 Beauty marks
28 Works by Caravaggio, Botticelli, etc.
29 Pasta sometimes served “alla vodka”
30 Pays to play poker
32 East African nation once home to the dodo
33 Crucial examinations
38 Least remote
39 Woman seen in “conga lines”
40 Taco Tuesday cocktail, briefly
43 Didn’t buy, as a vehicle
44 Hoedown venues
45 Hollandaise, for one
46 Urban visibility hazard
47 Prefix meaning “under”
48 Duelist’s sword
50 In need of a massage, perhaps
51 What you used to be?
52 A whole bunch
54 Dove’s murmur
