ACROSS

1. Gradual

5. Call at home

9. Succeed in school

13. Pool path

14. Solidify

15. Pupils take part in it

16. Continent SE of Asia

18. ___ incognita

19. Start to fix

20. Type of exam

21. Life's work

22. Stick on

24. Unnatural

25. Epinicion

26. Turn in

27. Shot in the dark

30. Was nuts over

31. Freudian topic

34. Termini

35. Leaves

36. Be sure

37. “Who, me?”

38. Not drunk

39. Wand

40. Make fit

42. Fanatic

43. Worn around the neck

44. Call the shots

47. Person who operates a farm

48. Some bills

49. Mai tai liquor

51. Frank option

52. Cut through

54. Friars Club fete

55. Whence the Magi, with “the”

56. Ever's partner

57. Soften

58. Author Zane

59. It's rounded up in a roundup

DOWN

1. Certain hockey shot

2. Tomb Raider ____ Croft

3. First appearance

4. Marshy

5. Rarely encountered

6. Koran Creator

7. Baking sheet

8. Capt.'s guess

9. Run through

10. Mutual arrangement

11. Emulate Freddy Kruger, perhaps

12. Paparazzi target

15. Goggled

17. Highways

21. Things to crack

23. Buffet

24. Abnormal body temperature

26. Ebert or Moore

27. Treasure

28. Start for a Spanish count

29. Pertaining to an editor

30. Big voting bloc

32. Gloppy stuff

33. “A League of Their ___”

35. As dissimilar as possible

36. Model Moss

38. Mum

39. Explode

41. Not quite

42. Degrees in a right angle

43. Hiawatha's craft

44. Hardly Mensa material

45. Weight lifter

46. Aristotle, to Alexander the Great

47. Configuration

48. Speed

50. Fix, as a fence

52. Cribbage marker

53. Sound of support

solution