1: Pasta or staircase shape

7: Polynesian paste

10: Gumbo vegetable

14: Embellished

15: Tune

16: Judge

17: Get cozy

18: Family

19: Word following eye or nose

20: Mien

22: Musclebound brute

23: Menlo Park monogram

24: Methodology (abbr.)

25: Connective gizmo

28: Eyebrow shape

29: Japanese honorific

31: Threefold

32: Go down

33: Lobster and beluga products

35: Davy Crockett hat sources

36: They take sides

38: Italian sports cars

40: Prom escort

41: Resort hotel

44: Al ___ (pasta order)

45: Came across

46: Gallery objects

47: Keep one's eyes open

49: Talk foolishly

52: Little one

53: Food scrap

54: Excessive

57: Old-time telephone feature

59: Tree fluid

60: Puts one's two cents in

61: Flute or saxophone variety

62: 'PUSH FOR ___'

63: Stand up to somebody

64: Like one end of a pool

65: Half a score

66: Official decrees

1: Beethoven's 'Appassionata' et al.

2: Get ready

3: Check out

4: Miles per hour, e.g.

5: Bodybuilder Charles

6: Skeptical

7: Annoyance

8: Lubrication container

9: Annoyed

10: Like any number finishing with '9'

11: Hair protein

12: Gets back to business?

13: Current unit

21: Balance sheet positive

26: Square things

27: Lions and Tigers and Bears

30: In reserve

33: Appraiser

34: Surgery sites, briefly

35: Siamese or Persian

36: Cocktail hour spread

37: Woodland deity

38: Feverish

39: Tuition classification

41: Devilish

42: Freedom march, e.g.

43: Certifies

44: Thingamajig

45: Threat

48: Short stay

50: Be taken with

51: Uttered a shrill cry (with ''up'')

55: Sesame starter?

56: Not finalized, legally

58: Cut off