1: Reduces in intensity

5: Word with powder or cream

9: Inscribe with acid

13: Triangular sail insert

14: Committee

15: Group of three

16: Power network

17: Life of ___

18: Round of applause

19: Almost firm

21: Freeway divisions

22: Center

23: Outlaws

24: Riles up

27: Kin of croissants

29: Careful effort

30: Off the mark

32: Starts of sneezes

34: Ale serving

35: Blind parts

36: Word on an octagon

37: Label

38: Some cisterns

39: Rub the wrong way

40: Forswears

42: Provided

43: Pulls a heist

44: Carbonated drinks

46: A little bit of haven?

48: Thin smoke wrapped in whole-leaf tobacco

52: Ballpark figures

53: Wreath material

54: Rude person

55: Scottish hillside

56: Prestigious schools, informally

57: It's involved in inspiration

58: Dupes

59: Geographical seven

60: Antsy

1: They're beaten in the kitchen

2: The death of the party?

3: Panama hat part

4: Bank deposit?

5: Buckets

6: Not yet ignited

7: Supply grub to

8: Take wing

9: Flammable gas

10: Worked at the U.N., perhaps

11: French film

12: Coal carriers

14: Goads

20: Business letter addressees

21: Vies for the break, in billiards

23: Striped fish

24: PDA entry

25: Water sprite

26: Crisp cookie

27: Smithereens

28: Be rude in line

30: Help for the hapless

31: Navigator's need

33: Stepped on it

35: Litigates

36: Displaying good judgment

38: Bro and sis

39: Fruit cocktail fruit

41: Click and clack, e.g.

42: Chews out

44: Eyelashes

45: Looks like a lecher

46: Eyes

47: Mystique

48: Sheltered inlet

49: Bright, as a color

50: Louisiana politician Huey

51: Bacchanalian blast

53: 'To each ___ own'