1: Stadium topper

5: Narrative

10: 'No ifs, ___, or buts!'

14: Neural fiber

15: It can get you down

16: Bask in a bath

17: Observes

19: Final prelim

20: Requests earnestly

21: Made a heap

22: Generation separator

23: Trudge, as through sludge

25: Palatable

28: Transparent quality

33: Whodunit necessities

34: Score unit

35: Stewing vessel

36: Goals

37: Nickels and dimes

38: Teeming (with)

39: Full circle, on the track

40: Incite

41: Some kind of a nut

42: Bacon and others

44: Catch with a rope

45: Rational

46: Place for a rubber duckie

47: Karate blows

50: Comes into one's own

55: Theater section

56: Impediment to getting high?

58: Sesame starter?

59: Paycheck booster

60: Trust, with 'on'

61: They're 16th of 26

62: Joints with caps

63: Tournament advantages

1: Carp cousin

2: Whom the yoke's on?

3: Lose feathers

4: Efforts

5: Do away with

6: Just one of those things

7: Inning enders

8: Map abbr.

9: 'Sure thing!'

10: Give out

11: Caroling song

12: Title for Edith Evans

13: Lose traction

18: Rosary pieces

21: Dessert wine

23: Large fishing nets

24: It may zoom in or out

25: Actor's minimum wage

26: Wanted poster word

27: Fountain feeders

28: Helpmeet

29: Device for heavy lifting

30: Extended and dramatic narratives

31: Lobby furniture

32: Minutes taker, perhaps

37: Mint

38: Use a sponge twice

40: Handwoven rugs

41: Thick-pile fabric

43: Poplar trees

46: Boozes

47: Hoof-on-pavement sound

48: Anticipatory feeling

49: Type of arch

50: Soft cheese

51: Give the slip to

52: Listen to

53: Eminem's '8 ___'

54: Simon ___

56: First zoo?

57: Put up preserves