1: Festive affair

5: Sluggish

9: 'Quadrophenia' band, with 'The'

12: Shiite leader

13: Black-headed gull

15: 'Flee, fly!'

16: Christening VIPs

18: Hang on to

19: The limit, for some

20: Cell features

21: Overturns

23: Uses a bookie

24: Biting midge

25: Dressy scarfs

28: Purloins a purse

32: Ponders

33: Junction

34: Rope fiber

35: Takes advantage of

36: Prickly plants

37: Get-out-of-jail money

38: On-line discussion

39: Road grooves

40: Terra follower

41: Advanced physics subject

43: Overly ornamented

44: Frosty

45: Manipulate, as the books

46: Disease for which Pasteur created the first vaccine

49: Dressmaker's tuck

50: Curtain call response

53: Whom the yoke's on?

54: Pad the bill

57: Smelting residue

58: Mother-of-pearl

59: Whip mark

60: Craving

61: Stocking stuffers

62: Onion's cousin

1: Bookings for a combo

2: All over the place

3: Woman of wealth, often

4: Band blaster

5: Diet-conscious family of rhyme

6: Villainous looks

7: Has made the last payment on

8: It may be dry

9: 'At what time?'

10: Broke ground, perhaps

11: 'Clumsy me!'

14: Enormous sea wave

15: Artist's supply

17: Helps with the heist

22: Butter square

23: Supporting

24: Black flies

25: One way to run

26: Japanese dish

27: Jerk partner

28: The Amish, the Shakers, et al.

29: Preliminary races

30: Puts out

31: Flare out

33: Smart-mouthed

36: Deep purplish-red

40: Man of the ___ (clergyman)

42: Garbage bag closer

43: Armed bodies

45: Bear

46: Upbeat

47: Drive train element

48: Bop on the head

49: Art ___

50: Scottish hillside

51: Get an eyeful

52: Calendar period

55: Dyer's tub

56: Hole punch