Crossword Puzzle #1

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Across
  1. 1. This game
  2. 3. Author who warned of doublespeak and dictatorship
  3. 5. Gentle west wind, mythologically renowned
  4. 6. Jersey's infernal skaters
  5. 9. Chorus
  6. 13. Enlistee
  7. 15. Digital symbols of expression
  8. 16. Seventies supergroup
  9. 17. Dramatic performance
  10. 19. Coming soon, grammatically speaking
  11. 21. Canaan's son
  12. 22. Short journey, often for leisure or learning
  13. 23. Decline
  14. 24. Goes on a lot, but never leaves?
  15. 26. Sunken valley
  16. 28. Threshold
  17. 30. Offer temporarily
  18. 31. Toblerone, tent, and chip, e.g.
  19. 34. Big leagues on the diamond
  20. 35. Potter or badgering persistently
  21. 36. Global icons
  22. 37. Vinegar-kissed dish, a Filipino staple
  23. 39. Famous K. Le Guin
  24. 40. Rodents mythologized for mass exodus, stars of a 1991 puzzler
  25. 43. Fifty in German
  26. 44. Prelude to the spring festival, where fate is whispered
  27. 46. The "P" in SCULPT
  28. 47. Not just bad - diabolically so
  29. 48. Card face, tool, or everyman
Down
  1. 2. NYT Game
  2. 3. Yellow
  3. 4. Tundra, perhaps
  4. 7. Perception
  5. 8. Gentle reprimand, spoken in twos
  6. 10. The _____ paradox
  7. 11. WWIII mission to capture atomic intel
  8. 12. Nike's philosophy, almost
  9. 14. Bounce, break, shoot - time's ticking
  10. 17. Sales talk
  11. 18. Now
  12. 20. Rock group with no instruments
  13. 21. Covert mocking laugh
  14. 25. One who burrows into literature
  15. 27. Opposite of blue
  16. 28. Lewis Carroll's eccentric milliner
  17. 29. Pertaining to government revenue and financial matters
  18. 32. News carrier, briefly
  19. 33. Persia
  20. 34. Tiny trickster ungulate to folklore
  21. 38. Doctor turned demon, Scottish to the core
  22. 41. "Headed out the door."
  23. 42. Regulators of water, fire, and policy
  24. 45. Blue marble