"Stay Away (Freestyle) - USA Today 6.23.25

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Across
  1. 2. Gesture of agreeance
  2. 7. Preference over the presented option
  3. 8. Lifestyle media publisher
  4. 11. "___ So cool!"
  5. 12. Set-up for golf ball
  6. 14. "____, ____, pants on fire"
  7. 16. Ohio NBA team
  8. 19. Dessert with ice cream and crumbled cookies
  9. 20. Dough that's steamed with various fillings (Asian delicacy)
  10. 21. Garment for burial (i.e. "linen ______")
  11. 23. Shoe designer Jimmy
  12. 26. Drained battery, "_______ out"
  13. 28. Greek letter often representing an angle
  14. 30. People born just before Virgos
  15. 32. Only Survivor
  16. 34. Lion's warning
  17. 36. Vocal improvisation with wordless vocables
  18. 37. Sweet, sticky substance
  19. 39. Type of tree
  20. 40. "____-51"
  21. 41. Verbal fight
  22. 42. Expression of surprise or shock
  23. 44. Compliment of her genuineness
  24. 47. Planters Product
  25. 49. Sum of 1+1
  26. 50. How employers compensate employees
  27. 51. Measure of a small extent; somewhat
  28. 53. Affiliation of women based on relationship status
  29. 54. Measure of academic success
  30. 55. "You saved me!"
Down
  1. 1. "It was way funnier in person"
  2. 3. Logo on the Governor's stationary
  3. 4. Triage sites, for short
  4. 5. Two matching socks
  5. 6. Facial expression of discontent
  6. 9. Curves which emanate from a point
  7. 10. Caught in the act
  8. 13. Longtime, close friend
  9. 15. Risk-adverse advice
  10. 17. Sprite, Dr Pepper, etc.
  11. 18. Blind carbon copy, for short
  12. 20. Jamaican sprinter
  13. 22. Track for trains
  14. 24. Target for basketballs
  15. 25. Calligraphy
  16. 27. Part of the foot
  17. 28. Mother of peace
  18. 29. Online game "_____ Us"
  19. 31. Couch, futon, etc.
  20. 33. The Broadway Musical
  21. 35. Spoils of Easter
  22. 37. "r u ___ ?!?"
  23. 38. List of charges
  24. 43. Not to be confused with "up the ante"
  25. 45. Second-most-populous city in Brazil, for short
  26. 46. "You can go with this, or you can go with ____"
  27. 48. Won in games of tennis
  28. 52. "Never Gonna Give You Up" singer