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Across
  1. 1. Capital with a Nobel connection
  2. 4. Bit of land at sea
  3. 5. Partly shadowed
  4. 7. Spiritually mysterious
  5. 10. Story that checks out, maybe
  6. 12. Code, or a nobody
  7. 14. Muse with a love interest?
  8. 16. Writings of doubtful origin
  9. 17. Editor’s “never mind”
  10. 18. Not straight to the point
  11. 20. Skip over, as a syllable
  12. 23. Ancient prophetess
  13. 24. Esoteric knowledge
  14. 25. Something raised before playing
  15. 29. Heavy reading
  16. 31. Something not easily cracked
  17. 32. Treachery
  18. 33. Things not meant to last
  19. 35. Sign of things to come
  20. 36. Green, in a literary way
  21. 37. Not moving, chemically or otherwise
  22. 39. Fit for a scandal sheet
  23. 40. Thing out of its time
  24. 43. Impossible creature, or impossible dream
  25. 45. Sticky situation
  26. 46. Beyond words
  27. 48. Take the wrong way?
Down
  1. 2. Whispering sound
  2. 3. Gap in the record
  3. 6. Article of faith
  4. 8. Flashy but false
  5. 9. Desert deception
  6. 10. Like smoke that bites
  7. 11. Laughing matter
  8. 13. It may be seen through
  9. 15. Figure in which part stands for whole
  10. 19. Place with many turns
  11. 21. Memory aid
  12. 22. Puzzle with pictures
  13. 26. Twist into knots
  14. 27. Enjoy slowly
  15. 28. Number that may bring the house down
  16. 30. Pointed event in the Olympics
  17. 32. Contradiction that may still be true
  18. 34. Smooth-sounding
  19. 38. Writing over old writing
  20. 41. Prayer, poetically
  21. 42. Barely begun
  22. 44. Soothing, or bland
  23. 47. Repeat performance?