Across Hints Clues
Random ___ of kindness ACTS
”What’s more …” ALSO
Loser to scissors, winner over rock PAPER
Eating plan DIET
Slightest little sound PEEP
Future fungus SPORE
Tim Duncan’s longtime N.B.A. team SANANTONIOSPURS
Feminine article in Spanish UNA
”I’ll do that right away, boss!” ONIT
Source of draft beer TAP
Metaphor for some special-interest government spending PORKBARREL
Dust ___ (tiny critter) MITE
Taylor Swift’s “We ___ Never Ever Getting Back Together” ARE
Little hopper TOAD
Sudden overwhelming fear PANIC
Energy drinks that “give you wings” REDBULLS
Choose SELECT
Mouth-related ORAL
Versin’ person? POET
Spins WHIRLS
Titular soccer coach on a hit Apple TV+ series TEDLASSO
Improves, as a skill HONES
Greek salad cheese FETA
___-to manual HOW
Shapes of rainbows ARCS
Attention seeker at school CLASSCLOWN
”I did NOT need to know that!” TMI
Stretched tight TAUT
Sound in a “Batman” fight POW
”Done this before, you know!” … or a hint to the last words of 17-, 23-, 31-, 40- and 48-Across NOTMYFIRSTRODEO
Do a bit better than ONEUP
College head DEAN
Annoying thing to find unmatched in the laundry pile SOCK
Doorstop’s shape WEDGE
Certain risqué message SEXT
Swelled heads EGOS
Down Hints Clues
Interruptions in YouTube videos ADS
Spy org. CIA
Like professors with job security TENURED
Performed poorly, informally STANK
Well-suited APT
Sign before Virgo LEO
Ladies of Spain SENORAS
Stated a viewpoint OPINED
”Hey, you! Over here!” PSST
Smartphone download APP
Canadian fries-and-gravy dish POUTINE
Unpredictable ERRATIC
Aretha Franklin hit ranked #1 on a Rolling Stone magazine “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list RESPECT
Catch in the act NAB
Frying need OIL
Golf standard PAR
Underground metal ORE
Book of maps ATLAS
”Let the good times ___!” ROLL
Island nation south of Sicily MALTA
Banana discard PEEL
Tiresome sorts BORES
Addresses with links, for short URLS
Cokes and Pepsis SODAS
Nonhuman household residents PETS
”Where do we go from here?” WHATNOW
Estrogen or testosterone HORMONE
Provoked INCITED
Source of an extract used in aromatherapy TEATREE
Entrant in a Westminster Kennel Club event SHOWDOG
Scatter, as seeds SOW
Take responsibility for OWN
Liquids FLUIDS
Half-___ (rhyming coffee order) CAF
Lifesaving skill, in brief CPR
”___ lips sink ships” LOOSE
Use a keyboard TYPE
One might read “#1 Dad” MUG
”Wailing” instrument SAX
Explosive inits. TNT
Prefix with conscious ECO
Approves OKS