1: Pyramid bottom

5: Bear the expenses of

11: Divot material

14: Hgts.

15: Bring to a boil

16: Varlet

17: Tests for quality

19: Whichever

20: Brooding type?

21: Sesame starter?

22: Formerly

23: One who knows the score

27: Choral composition

29: Coal carriers

30: Tall-tale tellers

31: Not out of the question

36: Knock preceder

37: Mass

38: Skin

39: Run down

41: Morsel

42: 'Hamlet,' for example

43: Like blue shoes in an Elvis song

44: Noctambulous types

49: Toy boat spot

50: Uptight, slangily

51: Go, with 'on down'

54: Bluto's assent

55: Foundation

59: St. Louis gridder

60: Soothsayer

61: Freshly

62: Devious

63: Observed

64: GI's diner

1: Big financial loss

2: Burn soother

3: Amaze

4: PC bailout

5: Totalitarian ruler

6: 'Come on in'

7: Call to a bellhop

8: Campaigned for office

9: Historical period

10: 'Sure thing!'

11: In short supply

12: Gold dealer's unit

13: Laundry appliance

18: Wishes fervently

22: Hardens into bone

23: Took off

24: Unfortunate turn of events

25: Brilliant stroke

26: NPR has none

27: Revealing dress

28: They may be wild or rolled

30: Male youth

31: Acapulco attraction

32: Schlep

33: Ran in the wash

34: Boot binding

35: Spot

37: Where something may stick

40: Mont Blanc, for one

41: Edge loops

43: Burned superficially

44: Practices punching

45: True to the cause

46: Pogo said 'He is us'

47: Knight stick

48: Mournful peal

51: Fibula or femur

52: Kind of column

53: Sanctuary furniture

55: Corn unit

56: Unwrought iron

57: Sound of a fan

58: Highlander's cap