Across
- 5. Crossdressing Spenser heroine
- 6. Leaving a concert, to a Swiftie
- 9. Sharp-toothed and velvet-voiced flora
- 10. Backwards Bodega convenience
- 12. Nicéphore Niépce's claim to fame
- 14. Specialty at Suzuki's
- 15. 1959 Shirley Jackson Gothic horror novel
- 18. Hotel room amenity
- 19. Masetto’s love in Don Giovanni
- 20. Colloquial term in publishing
- 21. You're saving me, to texters
- 22. Laxatives loved by Louis Armstrong
- 25. Festival of Colours, Love, and Spring
- 26. Leftist Alexandra
- 28. Jane Gooddall passion
- 29. Jim Carrey role for which being made up felt like "being buried alive" per Carrey
- 30. Shrek and Fiona, for two
- 31. Computer program used in Jurassic Park
- 32. Parrot enthusiast and author of I Must Be Dreaming
- 37. Gossiping duo?
- 39. 'Til soon, in Aix
- 40. Who David?
- 43. Jour, to an English xenolingohassen
- 45. Cult sci-fi spoof film
- 48. Hard to find, per Imogen
- 49. Teetotum, to Gentiles
- 51. Mainely shells?
- 52. Funky font bitters originally from Venezuela
- 54. Alice author Lewis festively
Down
- 1. You just flip them
- 2. Audrey clue’s across town partner in bloodlust
- 3. 1259 convent
- 4. The sea, in Athens
- 7. Night before, or after Imogen
- 8. They're absent from this puzzle, save this clue
- 11. Alias for Salman Rushdie
- 13. Succession family surname
- 16. Kim Basinger’s character in Cool World
- 17. Famous Butterfly?
- 20. Honey, to Gen-Z
- 23. Rich and strange Shakespearean match
- 24. Billie _____, or NUMBERS + day
- 27. Author ironically duped by feigned fairy photo
- 28. 1973 Argentinian mountain site of two mysterious deaths
- 33. Televangelist Faye Messner, formally
- 34. Exam for juniors
- 35. Missouri Senator Josh
- 36. Role for Wallace Michael Shawn in Toy Story
- 38. Yom Kippur or Eid Al-Fitr
- 41. Saturn and the Sun
- 42. Bodega convenience
- 44. One who shies from the truth
- 46. All-wound healer
- 47. Leaning "z"ower of _______
- 50. Amy Tan novel, or after Tobah
- 53. Bodega convenience
- 55. To Kill A Mockingbird author