1: Exceeding

6: Places

10: Lacking, along the Loire

14: Exonerate

15: Grad

16: “Not guilty,” e.g.

17: Render harmless

18: Limited time

19: For fear that

20: Hazarding a guess: doughy metaphysician?

23: 'Sweet Pea' singer Tommy

24: Wharf pest

25: Wan

29: Musical Domino

31: Mag. submissions

34: Starring vehicle for Sigourney Weaver

35: Sprawling narrative

36: Angelic aura

37: Job category

40: Members' payments

41: Olympic weapon

42: Right-hand page

43: Include

44: Right, on the map

45: Redeems

46: Balaam's mount

47: Bricklayer's item

48: Befuddle

56: GI's diner

57: Film follower

58: Post-skiing beverage, for some

59: Up to the task

60: Silly pair?

61: Fielder's faux pas

62: St. and ave.

63: Proofreader's mark

64: Searches for

1: Atlantic food fish

2: Arm bone

3: Sound of laughter

4: Exceptional

5: Joust prep

6: Foamy pick-me-up

7: Table spread

8: Ringlet

9: Undying

10: Take off

11: Microbrewery offerings

12: Digs of twigs

13: Picked up a lap

21: Silent sayso

22: Brake neighbor

25: Black-and-white zoo attraction

26: Viva voce

27: Like many a pad of paper

28: Meadows

29: Gem surface

30: Fluish feeling

31: 'The Washington Post' or 'Seventy-Six Trombones'

32: Party's candidates

33: Flight school finals

35: Nurses, as a drink

36: Colors

38: Cogent

39: Badmouths

44: PC bailout

45: Corn unit

46: Dunderheads

47: Buttermilk, to Dale Evans

48: Obligation

49: Sea spot

50: Spy spying on a spy

51: Gates of philanthropy

52: Old wives' tales and such

53: Piece of property

54: Ripped off

55: Dumbo's 'wings'

56: Spoil