Like naturalistic novels about social ills Crossword Clue

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NATURALISTIC (adjective)
1. representing what is real; not abstract or ideal
SOCIAL (noun)
1. a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity
SOCIAL (adjective)
1. relating to human society and its members
2. composed of sociable people or formed for the purpose of sociability

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Across

1. One of several surrounding an ovary

6. More depraved

12. Post office purchase

14. Alla breve, by another name

15. Protector of sailors, briefly

16. Cleaned, as a spill

17. Kodak Brownies, for example

19. Last dance?

20. People who avoid using the can in public

21. Franchise whose films include “Eternals” and “Thunderbolts*,” for short

24. Author who beefed with Pope Boniface VIII

25. Accounts that are often anonymous, briefly

26. Disorderly scenes, so to speak

27. Reason to wear a CPAP mask

28. "Past Lives" star Greta

29. Ballet group

30. Cause of some errors

31. Jamie who played Klinger on “M*A*S*H”

32. Earlier in a line of succession, maybe

33. Resting place

34. Pandemonium

36. Post-breakup phase

37. Places to order japchae or champon

38. Remote possibilities?

40. Ship described as “a noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy”

44. Domestics from abroad

45. How skinny jeans fit

46. ''Where __ smoke . . .''

47. Sound of a giggle

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1. Its emotional symptoms might be treated with SSRIs

2. “It’s getting cold!”

3. Word after black or bow

4. “Bye-bye, booboo!”

5. Hong Kong drink with a tart note

6. High-speed skiing events

7. Help-desk whizzes, for short

8. Third-best performers

9. Trick-or-treaters, typically

10. Cassowary relative

11. Single crunch, e.g.

13. Actress Roker who is Zoë Kravitz’s grandmother

14. Place for educational programming?

16. Small-ball competitions

18. Formations such as Wake Island

19. Violated a moral law

20. Run out

21. Realm whose name means “Black Land” in Sindarin

22. Handles hardship

23. It dissolved in ’91

24. Smear

29. Intelligible

31. “Documents” and “Music,” maybe

34. Coin introduced under Jean Chrétien

35. Gambling game played in the movie “Hard Eight”

36. Tech in fish-finders

37. Neck part

38. Holly Golightly’s pet, in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”

39. "What was that?!"

41. “That was horrible!”

42. Stadium cheer

43. Ingredient in some candy

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