Puzzle 75

1. The tension of being forbidden to defend oneself in court, maybe
7. Come to the same conclusion
12. From that point forward
13. Christmas grub for scrooges
14. Come to worldwide notice, like Christ or antichrist: 2 wds.
15. Enjoy one’s peace: 2 wds.
16. Prom wrap?: suffix
17. Propagandized states of confusion
19. Ugandan dictator widely known as “Dada”
20. Fruit for which American exports increased during the Great Depression
22. Worst of the ___
23. With 20-Across, Christmas gift of song
24. Manifold synthetic used in flag fabric
26. Birther demand
28. Bro or sis: colloq.
30. Poster child for survival of the fittest?
31. Cancels one’s covenant
35. Cryptozoologist’s quarry
39. She’s in love: Lat.
40. Bete noire of executive-order cap-and-tax schemes
42. Subtext of a speech
43. Started (a forest fire on Mt. Carmel, for instance)
44. Weaver of fact with fiction
46. Group that says homosexuals are likelier to use or abuse drugs: abbr.
47. World leader named “S”
49. Donkey or elephant
51. “Wee fish ewe a mare ___ moose panda hippo gnu deer” (Sandra Boynton)
52. Like instinct
53. Pulls in (a big one)
54. Shown typical Islamic “hospitality” to infidels

1. Symbol of a declarer of independence
2. Objects of focus (as in attention-grabbing WorldNetDaily headlines)
3. Award the election to as an incumbent
4. Part that makes acetyl flammable: suffix
5. Type of hail formerly seen in Israel?
6. Leaflike flower protector
7. Space vehicle named after a warmaking demigod
8. Communist Party U.S.A. chairman (and AFL-CIO supporter) Hall
9. Leave the workforce with whatever funds the tax leeches have left one with
10. One that got away
11. Catches a glimpse of, in a canto
13. ___ Green (address for an elopement, or for Nicole Brown Simpson)
18. Asexual creatures that, according to evolution, gave birth to supermodels
21. Amnesty
23. Send a text message of up to 140 characters
25. Deepwater Horizon, e.g.
27. Trample the Fourth Amendment’s probable-cause requirements, perhaps
29. What charity does at home
31. Digitized scan image
32. Come out of the fray
33. System that reliably fixes large oil spills and global temperature changes?
34. Instrument used for jazzy renditions of “The Star-Spangled Banner”
36. Universally: 3 wds.
37. Government “guest” more likely than not to be an illegal alien, stats say
38. Like Obama’s birth-certificate or Social Security records
41. Roadside enemies of carbon-counting warmists
44. Flooring headaches for Toyota
45. Talk radio, when one objects to it
48. Ex-senator and lobbyist Martinez of Florida
50. Last digit in WorldNetDaily’s number, “phonetically”: symbol