Across
- 2. Word that sounds the same without four of its letters (5)
- 4. Salt's chemical name (4)
- 6. Resembling a palace (8)
- 8. Fast-food monarch? (4)
- 10. Most commonly misspelled word in the English language (6)
- 11. 2019 NBA winner (7)
- 14. 8.5" by 11" paper (6)
- 15. Deepest area of the ocean (5,4)
- 17. Positively charged ion (6)
- 18. Deepest lake in the world (6)
- 20. Supposed 13th zodiac (9)
- 23. Mexican dog, abbreviated (4)
- 24. Taylor Swift album with the songs "gold rush" and "marjorie" (8)
- 25. Pi doubled (3)
- 27. Typical picnic-blanket fabric (7)
- 28. Undo a crochet project (4)
- 29. Greek goddess of the faded second rainbow (4)
- 31. Donner's partner (7)
Down
- 1. Story device that gives the characters an easy win (4,2,7)
- 3. Bipedal marsupial (8)
- 5. Home of Connections and Letter Boxed, abbreviated (3)
- 7. Opposite of digital (6)
- 9. What lies directly beyond Neptune in the solar system (6,4)
- 12. What lies beyond 9-Down (4,5)
- 13. 2004 movie that was recently remade (4,5)
- 16. On fire (6)
- 19. Second Disney World park (5)
- 21. D&D class with the Light, Tempest, and Grave subclasses (6)
- 22. Sarcastic (3)
- 26. The "a" in AR (9)
- 30. Last of a series (5)
- 31. Balloon outward, like a sheet or wind (6)