1: Ess or ell

6: Oliver Twist, for one

10: Where oysters grow

14: Eagle's claw

15: Earthenware jar

16: 'Cessa di più resistere,' for one

17: Panaches

18: Drummer's rhythm

19: Storm particles

20: What an astronaut experiences in space

23: Abacus part

24: Van Gogh's love offering

25: European coin

29: Course of action

31: Wrinkly-faced canine

34: Bar wedge

35: Court order

36: It's cast, then counted

37: Disease experts

40: Tennis match divisions

41: Crescent-shaped mountain range

42: Takes it on the chin

43: 9 - 5, e.g.

44: Spots

45: Ravel work

46: Pharaohs' symbol of power

47: Corn unit

48: Befuddle

56: Veggie vessels

57: False witness

58: Company dodger

59: Butler, for Gable

60: Apart from this

61: Fall bloom

62: Hematite and galena

63: Goes out with

64: Oboes, e.g.

1: Hearty meal

2: Golfer Irwin

3: Jai ___

4: Pioneering video game

5: Put in a place of honor

6: Realm

7: Burn soother

8: Misfortunes

9: Frankie Valli's voice

10: More contemptible

11: Segments of history

12: Clamors

13: In mourning

21: Bon or won follower

22: 'Uh uh'

25: Skeleton's lack

26: Ostracized person

27: Drops

28: Fishing gear

29: Supports, with 'up'

30: Feels poorly

31: Sheriff's band

32: Absolute, as nonsense

33: Artist's plaster

35: Strategem

36: Six-stringed fiddle

38: Springtime dance sites

39: Like the 'lava' in a lava lamp

44: PC bailout

45: Bounce up and down

46: Dunderheads

47: Prepares an apple, perhaps

48: One way out

49: Emulate a couch potato

50: Eminem's '8 ___'

51: Pyramid bottom

52: Give the slip to

53: Players may up it

54: Miffed, with 'off'

55: Slips

56: Old hand