1: Clarence in 'It's a Wonderful Life'

6: Prepare parmesan, e.g.

11: Get ready for a fight

14: Depart

15: Ascended

16: Electrical unit

17: Uninvited guest

19: 'Sure thing'

20: Musclebound brute

21: Heavy book

22: Bodybuilder Charles

24: Full amount

25: Deal with it

27: SWAT team specialists

33: Gate alternative

34: Waterproof cover

35: Pat down

37: English poet Alexander

38: Pats a baby on the back

39: Skunk's funk

40: Sharp barks

41: Tributes in verse

42: Surveil, with 'out'

43: Scot-free

46: Flute or saxophone variety

47: Slim swimmer

48: ___ Carta

51: Type of admiral

53: Choose

56: For ___ the marbles

57: Egotistical conversationalist

61: Pigeon patter

62: Yet to occur

63: Jeweler's eyeglass

64: Shape with cutting blows

65: CandW's Travis

66: Milquetoast

1: Pond organism

2: Tide type

3: Scandal suffix

4: Original sinner

5: Topical speech

6: Family nickname

7: Get ready to shine?

8: Can opener?

9: Player's peg

10: Deeply absorbed

11: ___ nitrate

12: Flightless bird

13: Swabs

18: Play like a puppy

23: Heed medical advice, perhaps

24: Merchandise mover

25: Coffin contents

26: 'Clumsy me!'

27: Unflinching

28: Thick-skinned mammal

29: Apartment type

30: Room with a number of wives

31: Noted Nehi drinker of TV

32: Lost in haze, like some Appalachian mountains

33: Undercover worker

36: Start to mature?

38: Frankenstein monster feature

42: Solid alcohols

44: Two-dimensional

45: Warm, in a sense

48: Sonic unit

49: Burn soother

50: Beam with pride

51: Part of ROM

52: Small whirlpool

53: Important work

54: Enlivens (with 'up')

55: Deuce topper

58: 'Caught you!'

59: American voters before 1920

60: Polynesian paste