1: Balaam's mount

4: Whistle blower

10: They're beaten in the kitchen

14: 'Sweet Pea' singer Tommy

15: Cheerful

16: Uptight, slangily

17: Navigator's need

18: Bring back together

20: Figure eight performers

22: Single

23: Flightless bird

24: Cycle part

27: Annoyance

28: Where the fourth estate gets briefed

32: Is the right size

33: Iron production?

34: Two-piece piece

35: Welcoming gift on Maui

36: 'What have we here?'

37: Out of work? (abbr.)

38: A long way off

39: Tag players

40: California wine grapes

42: Market optimist

43: Without fidgeting

45: Tousle

46: Bun net

47: Frisbee, for one

48: Tightly-twisted thread

51: Feudal tenants

54: Like some memos

58: Helpful hint

59: Leave in, to an editor

60: Reveille, e.g.

61: Long time

62: Expensive car trips?

63: Exit, to P.T. Barnum

64: Verbalize

1: Provides weapons to

2: Bask in a bath

3: Breakaway

4: Covered serving dish

5: La Scala offering

6: Geishas' sashes

7: Half a score

8: Feed one's face

9: Map abbr.

10: One who brings home the bacon

11: Bite

12: Scandal suffix

13: Kane's dying thought

19: Triangular shoe insert

21: '___ is Your Life'

24: Start to mature?

25: Cordial

26: Dunderheads

27: Michelangelo masterpiece

28: Lickety-split

29: Clouds

30: Tests that allow talking

31: Crumbly clay mixture

32: Coin toss

33: Material for khakis

36: Garage entry device

41: Trite

42: Smooch

44: Keys in a chain

45: Scrooge and Silas Marner

47: Freshwater fishes

48: Grocery shopper's reference

49: Wild about

50: Hearty meal

51: Tight gripper

52: Former capital of Italy?

53: Fix a hot dog?

55: Unwrought iron

56: Muddlement

57: It may be synthetic