1: Thus

5: Drain problem

9: Beat the tar out of

13: One way out

14: Go before?

16: Failures

17: Cut off from the sea

18: 'Sure thing'

19: Wails

20: Docks

21: Wooden shoes

23: More than slow, in retail

25: Tears roughly

26: Grow together

30: Manuscript markings

32: Frankenstein monster feature

33: 'Hee ___'

34: Pat response

35: Gets a signature on the dotted line, perhaps

36: Beverage with a bouquet

37: Aardvark's tidbit

38: They may be liberal

39: Strikes from a proof

40: Email

43: Object in many sports

44: City map

45: Sent a wire

47: Pizza cuts, essentially

50: A whole lot

51: Tennis shot

53: Stretching

56: Baby's favorite art movement?

57: High altitude instruments?

58: They're beaten in the kitchen

59: Turns red, perhaps

60: Reason and Enlightenment

61: Perk up, as an appetite

1: Small whirlpool

2: Scoundrels

3: Christening VIPs

4: Surgery sites, briefly

5: Grouses

6: It may zoom in or out

7: Like any number finishing with '9'

8: Hairdo helper

9: Choose

10: Autumn tool

11: One working with Linux, e.g.

12: Where oysters grow

14: Novel designs

15: Brittle aromatic resin

19: Bread pieces, to fondue

22: Chomp

23: Guys' Broadway counterparts

24: Bolts down

26: Future stallions

27: Cudgel, in County Cork

28: Mr. Peanut accessory

29: Merino mamas

30: Loud door sound

31: Spork part

32: Soft headgear

35: Sprawling narrative

36: Wisher's place

39: Applies lightly

41: Places to find literary titles

42: Straighten, as wheels

43: Marriage announcement

45: Davy Crockett hat sources

46: Get out of the way

47: Part of ROM

48: Friend

49: Dummy

50: Word before irons or chains

52: ___ fiber (flax, hemp, ramie, or jute)

54: 'Caught you!'

55: Dress fancily, with 'out'

56: Condensation phenomenon