1: Gives the go-ahead to

6: Blue funk

10: Scratching post users

14: Bathroom fixture

15: Be a whiner

16: Share a border with

17: Unsuitable for surgery

19: ___ fide

20: Cuts a course?

21: Golf bag item

23: Broadway's Ethel

26: Slow to act

27: Female fowl

28: Doorbell component

31: Chilly

32: Mukluk, e.g.

33: Just one of those things

37: Adolescent

38: Scrapes and scratches

39: Beverage with a bouquet

40: Roll call response

41: Wapiti

42: Line dance

43: Whacks

45: Scows

46: ___ voce

49: Writing with this could be permanent

50: Yank from the ground

52: Partner of kin

53: He has his pride

54: In an attractive manner

60: Seethe with rage

61: Motion-carrying votes

62: Playful sprite

63: Band boxes?

64: 'To Renew America' writer Gingrich

65: Emulated Endymion

1: 'Shogun' sash

2: Flesh and blood

3: Time-wasting bother

4: 'Sure thing'

5: Checked

6: Give rise to

7: Gists

8: Hardly hale

9: Miffed, with 'off'

10: Pride of the kitchen, perhaps

11: Superior in rank

12: Hi-fi equipment

13: Get going

18: Horse color

22: Backboard attachment

23: Free-for-all

24: Itching (to)

25: Ornaments that resemble diamonds

27: Course of action

28: They may be popped

29: Thin-bladed tools

30: Tag players

32: Frankenstein monster feature

34: Door attachment

35: Cause of an outburst

36: Snapple selections

38: Red or Yellow

42: Early fast-food employees

44: Seek favor with

45: Nutty

46: Infection fighter

47: Addictive narcotic

48: Step heavily

49: Center

51: Comparison word

52: Was certain of

55: Bluto's assent

56: Inch fraction

57: Devon river

58: Muhammad Ali a.k.a. 'The Louisville ___'

59: In the time left