1: They're beaten in the kitchen

5: Brutally frank

8: Tow

12: Hayloft block

13: Far from ruddy

14: Colorful eel

15: Congressional group

16: Stored to develop aroma, as tobacco

17: Much the same

18: Some terms

20: Las Vegas rollers

21: Religious rationalist

22: Jack Sprat no-no

23: Iron-recycling organ

26: One who works and plays

30: Sundial figure

31: Negate a conviction

34: Cut short

35: Takes a powder

37: It may be financial

38: Savoir-faire

39: Roman wrap

40: Difficult to read, in a way

42: Hour div.

43: Hi-fi systems

45: Hearts, e.g.

47: Guiding principle

48: 'Seeya'

50: Like Richard and Yorick?

52: Lice and the like

56: Geography class feature

57: Fail to include

58: Sound of laughter

59: Flowed slowly

60: Eminem's '8 ___'

61: Lay macadam

62: Tournament advantages

63: Faux follower

64: Scratched (out)

1: Reduces in intensity

2: Dorothy from Kansas

3: ___ onto (grab)

4: Leave a federation

5: Frenzies

6: Tornado siren, e.g.

7: Ties the knot

8: Governmental go-getter

9: Kind of acid

10: Baikal is the world's deepest

11: Old soap ingredient

13: Thin coating

14: Bawd

19: Barely flows

22: Marsh

23: Goes through

24: Word with light or episode

25: Feudal lord

26: Soft drink

27: 'Jump, Jive, an' Wail' composer/bandleader Louis

28: Bag contents on the mound

29: Unwraps

32: St. Louis gridders

33: Fade away

36: Ring sites

38: Fire places

40: Madame of the sty

41: What planets do

44: Dog-___

46: Passé ailment name

48: Female demon

49: Seed coverings

50: Piece of strategy

51: Primordial sludge

52: Pageantry

53: Wood used for furniture

54: Roof rim

55: Kane's dying thought

56: Sailor, in slang