Across
1.
Ultra-manly
MACHO
6.
Airplane ___ (in-flight phone setting)
MODE
10.
Old-timey dental anesthetic
ETHER
11.
Cooling lotion ingredient
ALOE
12.
[Tap, tap] "Is this thing on?"
SOUNDCHECK
14.
"Let me think"
HMM
15.
Historic period
ERA
16.
Soup ingredient that is often removed before eating
BAYLEAF
20.
Make invalid, as a marriage
ANNUL
23.
Language suffix
ESE
24.
Hustlers in a billiards hall
POOLSHARKS
27.
Workplace freebie
PERK
28.
Sign after Pisces
ARIES
29.
Absolutely crush it, in slang
SLAY
30.
Cook slowly, as tomatoes
STEW
Down
1.
See-through dress fabric
MESH
2.
Something about a million times smaller than a grain of sand
ATOM
3.
Buddy
CHUM
4.
Coop resident
HEN
5.
Trials and tribulations
ORDEALS
6.
Taj ___
MAHAL
7.
Shout from a flamenco dancer
OLE
8.
One of the Seven Dwarfs
DOC
9.
Scared reaction to a spider
EEK
13.
"Summon" a new parent, maybe
CRY
16.
Like oversized luggage
BULKY
17.
Spooky
EERIE
18.
Slightly crooked, as a picture frame
ASKEW
19.
Spill the beans, with "up"
FESS
20.
Venmo and Splitwise
APPS
21.
Holiday tune
NOEL
22.
Ephron who wrote "When Harry Met Sally …"
NORA
25.
"Every dog ___ its day"
HAS
26.
What DALL-E, OpenAI’s text-to-image tool, can create
ART