Get high for a very short time? Crossword Clue

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(verb)
1. bypass
2. cause to jump or leap
(noun)
1. descent with a parachute
2. a sudden involuntary movement

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

HIGH (noun)
1. a high place
2. a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12
HIGH (adjective)
1. slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)
2. happy and excited and energetic
HIGH (adverb)
1. in a rich manner
2. at a great altitude
SHORT (adjective)
1. of insufficient quantity to meet a need
2. marked by rude or peremptory shortness
SHORT (verb)
1. cheat someone by not returning him enough money
2. create a short circuit in
SHORT (adverb)
1. at a disadvantage
2. quickly and without warning
SHORT (noun)
1. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
2. accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference

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Across

1. Neighboring property?

10. Celebrity with high view counts

12. Person surfing while lying down, maybe

14. Two-door cars

15. Bit of explanatory text between the title and the article, in journalism lingo

17. Flower with a sutra named for it

18. ___ in life (fate)

21. Words to one’s hijo

22. Having scaled

23. Plural noun in the titles of plays by Shakespeare and Molière

25. “Oh, really?”

26. Word after guess or Doctor

27. Get-togethers where friends hold hands

29. Action that asserts dominance

30. Comedic metric that’s notably high for “30 Rock” and “Veep”

33. Boy after a bar mitzvah, so it’s said

36. S.V.U. part

37. Specs

38. Something to turn in “The Turn of the Screw”

39. Freebies taken when leaving a restaurant

41. Pint-sized

42. Item in a quiver

43. Platform for Tommie Smith and John Carlos’s Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics

45. Bless with oil

46. “You gotta be kidding me!”

50. Bashes with boatloads of bubbles

51. Pale in comparison?

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Down

1. Confine to a small space

2. Some Winter Olympics sleds

3. The Temptations founding member Williams

4. Act litigiously

5. ___ and flow

6. Opposite of paleo-

7. Those, in Spanish

8. Walk like you own the place

9. Satirical name for a joyless, taupe aesthetic

10. Awkward accidental response to a waiter saying “Enjoy!”

11. Discuss ad nauseam, say

12. Nineteenth-century assassin who’s one of the assassins in “Assassins”

13. Mail in, as payment

14. Stuffed-animal grabber at an arcade

16. Parts of umlauts and ellipses

18. Used—not that you can tell

19. Govern

20. Morsel for an aardwolf

23. Knocked the socks off

24. Little brats

27. Vessel for peas or escapees

28. Creeping or climbing plant

29. Quibble over minutiae

31. First ingredient after oil in a sauté pan, often

32. “I guess you could say that”

33. “A Heart So White” novelist Javier

34. Ecstasy’s counterpart

35. “She turned me into a ___” (witch-trial accusation in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”)

38. Miles ___ a.k.a. Tails (“Sonic the Hedgehog” character whose name, when said aloud, puns on his speediness)

40. Chapter of the Quran

42. Soul singer Stone with the 1999 single “No More Rain (In This Cloud)”

44. “Didn’t you get the ___?”

45. Prefix with pope or Christ

47. High-level H.S. classes

48. Kit ___ bar

49. ___ meetup (event organized by online friends, familiarly)

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