1: Canine kin

6: Hoof-on-pavement sound

10: Melt

14: Elliptical

15: Happy time?

16: Meditation method

17: Lab jobs

18: Tried

20: Commits confidently (to)

22: Pigeon patter

23: Band boxes?

24: Hang in there

28: Actor whose two Oscars came in films that won Best Original Screenplay

31: Fries, often

32: ___ culpa

33: Languishes

34: Compels to go

35: Faux follower

36: Important work

37: Musclebound brute

38: Type type

39: LP measure

40: They're rigged

42: More than persuasion

43: Tumultuous noise

44: Suspicious

45: Baggage handler

46: SWAT team members

48: Fabled race loser

49: Full circle, on the track

50: Welsh rabbits

54: Title of respect

58: Brown pigment

59: Article that may list survivors

60: Argyle, for one

61: Stand for a portrait

62: Keen perception

63: Golf ball pegs

64: Destroy by degrees

1: Speck of dust

2: Where cookies might crumble

3: Bringing up the rear

4: Draws

5: Job application attachments

6: Chews the fat

7: Subdivision divisions

8: Away from the office

9: Go before

10: Copy editor's quarries

11: Sensational

12: Historical period

13: Blob of used gum

19: Behavioral bases

21: Undercover worker

24: Mounds

25: Ship in

26: Rap session?

27: King's employee

28: Foils, e.g.

29: It lost out to 'A Little Night Music' for Best Musical

30: Grads

31: Maudlin

34: They may be split

38: Ancestor

40: Promise

41: Concert soloist

42: Divine

45: What golfers try to break

47: Novel designs

48: Unskilled writers

50: Jambalaya grain

51: ___ facto

52: Even-steven

53: Cause of a Macy's riot?

54: 'In what way?'

55: 'Shogun' sash

56: Louse egg

57: Dr. No, to Bond