Across
1. Emergency vehicle
10. Eyeball benders (2 wds)
15. Those with sound judgment
16. Optician's rouge
17. Those who are confined in wartime
18. Lingo
19. Directly
20. "How ___!"
21. W African storytellers
22. Bent
23. Protein particles responsible for degenerative diseases of the nervous system
24. ___ and Hardy
27. Amalgam
28. Buenos ___
29. Small tart tree fruit
33. "I had no ___!"
34. Be bombastic
35. Hip bones
36. Discuss an issue from a different point of view
38. Considers
39. Daughter of Saturn
40. Take back
41. Vascular inner layer of skin
43. Supergarb
44. Pranksters
45. Kill, in a way
46. Long-jawed fish
49. Old World plants, such as cuckoopint
50. Condiment on lamb (2 wds)
52. Lure
53. Person who attacks another
54. Flip, in a way
55. Came in again

Down
1. Bone-dry
2. Restaurant options
3. Diminish
4. "It's no ___!"
5. Large motor vehicles with flat platforms
6. Yearly
7. Demands
8. Algonquian Indian
9. Cousin of -trix
10. Egg-shaped instrument
11. Object valued for evoking a historical time (2 wds)
12. About 1% of the atmosphere
13. Laugh-a-minute folks
14. Makes lace
21. Cousin of a loon
22. Hansel and Gretel's trail marks (2 wds)
23. Braids
24. Animal house
25. Assistant
26. Carbamide
27. Chutzpah
29. Algonquin Indians
30. "Guilty," e.g.
31. Describe
32. "___ of Eden"
34. Gold braid
37. 1919 world heavyweight champion
38. Sediment
40. Wicker material
41. Egyptian corn
42. Small ornamental ladies' bags
43. Perfume
44. Street fleet
45. Workbench attachment
46. ___ gum, used as thickening agent in food
47. Bad marks
48. Abbr. after many a general's name
50. Fold, spindle or mutilate
51. A pint, maybe