1: Gravy server

5: Former Iranian ruler

9: Use a grasping device at the barbecue

13: Ceremonial practice

14: Stand on the corner?

15: Ear-related

16: Precedes in time

18: Type of queen

19: Biathlon need

20: Possessing peepers

21: Groovy?

22: Goes to the top of

24: Greeting words

25: Free

26: Summer resident, often

27: Parting words?

30: Pants' parts

31: Tick off

34: Well-ventilated

35: Practices punching

36: Pout

37: Not against

38: Campaign poster plea

39: Far from tanned

40: Kidnap

42: Tease mercilessly

43: Old saws

44: Be totally destroyed

47: Midlife ___

48: Give the ax to

49: Hansom vehicle

51: Speak formally

52: Nutty Professor's ice cream preference?

54: 'Seeya'

55: Golden Rule preposition

56: Off course

57: Not the original color

58: Veggies in a pod

59: Some votes in Congress

1: Lingerie buys

2: Speaks Pig Latin?

3: Tall story?

4: Player's peg

5: Supported

6: Detests

7: Fired

8: 'To each ___ own'

9: Terrarium pet

10: Elgar's 'The Apostles' and 'The Kingdom'

11: Celebrities

12: Tickled pink

15: Metamorphosis stages

17: Pastrami places

21: Flat rates?

23: Pretentious

24: What you gotta have, in a 'Damn Yankees' song

26: Change, chemically

27: Loutish fellow

28: Life story, for short

29: Shine a light on

30: Blueprints, briefly

32: Same-old-same-old

33: Pivotal

35: Swings around

36: Christmas trio

38: Less at ease

39: Arctic jacket

41: Buttered up?

42: Odd pages

43: Duds

44: Orzo or ziti

45: Unstressed vowel

46: Hirsute

47: Like Antarctica

48: Trig ratio

50: Lads

52: Litter member

53: Put up preserves