1: Group of pitches

6: Label

9: From the nearest star

14: Ingredient in mead

15: Cry over spilled milk

16: More than once

17: Diversion

19: Not qualified

20: Pain in the neck

21: Feed seed

22: Breaks a certain limit

23: Peel

25: Female domestics

26: Musicians' platform

28: Band blaster

31: Butcher bird

33: Trucker's ride

34: Contend

35: Nickels and dimes

36: Firearm

37: Exhausted

39: 'Not only that ...'

40: Dr. No, to Bond

41: They're bigger than quarters

42: Solicit alms

43: Tangerine-bearing trees

45: Be a ham

47: 'I'll catch it!'

48: On solid ground

50: Deep distress

51: Something to make at night and break in the morning

55: Rub the wrong way

56: Paperback alternative

58: Modern form of communication

59: Some gametes

60: Old-womanish

61: A and B, in records

62: Hairdo helper

63: Irritable

1: Bloke

2: Where the heart is, proverbially

3: Responsibility

4: Hold back

5: Stain, as a fabric

6: Stair parts

7: Your father's sister

8: Obtain

9: Asinine

10: Possessed

11: Certain candies

12: LSD, informally

13: Soaks, as flax

18: Haut ___ (high society)

22: Took charge of the karaoke machine

24: Printing liquids

25: Cardinal

26: Part of a combat zone

27: Set straight

29: Matter topper?

30: Spot and Fido

31: Sign of healing

32: Use a whetstone

36: Depleted

37: Ankle-knee connector

38: Item of seasonal decoration

40: Destiny

41: True companion

43: Tasty mushrooms

44: Ethically neutral

46: Date destination

48: Fossey's focus

49: Final prelim

50: Silent greeting

52: Dollar competitor

53: Cheesy sandwich

54: Mouse, to an owl

56: Not share

57: Siamese or Persian