Puzzle by Karl Wallulis

ACROSS
1. Bridge
5. Location of Merchants
9. To and ___
12. Volcanic creation
13. Crushing on
14. Author of Solaris
15. Restricted ___
16. Mormonism, e.g.
17. Had a bite
18. BMOC #1
21. 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet
22. Two after I
23. Parabolic shape
26. Chicken ___ King
28. Alternative to rigatoni
30. BMOC #2
33. See eye-to-eye
34. It may be hot
35. Mineral rock
36. It codes for proteins
37. Pod member
39. BMOC #3
46. Much ___ about Nothing
47. Impel
48. Board game objects
49. Hot off the shelf
50. Try to lose?
51. Remove wrinkles
52. Two get you 14 pts.
53. French 101 verb
54. Lean a certain way

DOWN
1. Yo’ mama joke, e.g.
2. Spanish preposition
3. State explicitly
4. Civil rights grp. founded in 1909
5. The M in ICBM
6. Once again
7. Have a 47-Across
8. “Nose goes”
9. Animal that often stands on one leg
10. Braces replacement
11. Warning sign
19. Topic of some dictionary notes
20. Dead even
23. Kind of 5-down (abbr.)
24. Evaluated again
25. Ludacris used to sport them
27. 8-minute ___
28. Point of light on a monitor
29. Dir. from Tri-Cities to Walla Walla
31. Unimagined
32. Filled to the brim
38. IRS action
39. He wrote the Critique of Pure Reason
40. John Lennon’s son
41. Formal order
42. One getting older
43. Old Italian currency
44. Michael Jackson, for one
45. E-mail command