ACROSS

1. Funny Foxx

5. Biblical brother

9. Ex-SNLer Quinn

14. It's pointless

15. About

16. Observe Yom Kippur

17. Lazy cut of beef?

20. Sonata's last movement, often

21. Avoid risk

22. Religion of Japan

24. Puppy, perhaps

25. Word from a bear?

26. Stiff hairs

27. It may be staked

29. It's just passing

30. Member of the lepton family

32. Syrup source

34. Fastest cut of beef to cook?

37. Junior generally

38. Works on a sentence?

41. George Gershwin's brother

44. Allotted

46. Floor fixer

47. Teasing tool

49. Caesar of comedy

50. Southern cooking style

51. Adopt, as a philosophy

53. Tag

54. Cut of beef for the West Coast?

58. “Keep to the ground”

59. Pull in

60. Word with Lover's or Lois

61. Blue books?

62. “From the of”; memo heading

63. Village People hit

DOWN

1. Apt. usually

2. Prefix for demic or dermis

3. Rubble

4. Sets off

5. Apt.

6. Jason's ship

7. Syr.'s neighbor

8. What a clueless one has

9. Vikki, “It Must Be Him” singer

10. Native Nebraskans

11. Advanced

12. Part of a boot

13. Irritate

18. Way to be heard in the next room

19. Cotton fabric

22. Govt. ID

23. Haw leader

24. Walked with difficulty

27. Turner's first TV sta.

28. Consummate artists

31. Rhinoceros playwright

33. Best way to wait

35. Sheet of grass

36. 2.2 pounds

39. Brooks or Blanc

40. Before, to the Bard

41. Alpine sight

42. Loveable Ray?

43. Stroller

45. Like a wedding cake

48. NBC anchor Williams

50. Metallic sound

52. Do, rarely done now

53. They may be put on

55. Burns's negative

56. Business mag.

57. Pod occupant

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