Across

1. Bowler's pickup

6. Book one of Henry Miller's Rosy Crucifixion

11. Some batteries

14. Spin doctor

15. Cast out

16. Philosopher Lao-___

17. Chambers

18. Elephantine

19. Before, informally

20. Stern rival

21. Little, in Leith

22. Henry Miller's second wife

23. “Ladders to Fire” writer

24. Govt. debt

27. Mixer

28. Standard setting at 0 degrees long.

29. Question from the unable

30. Beginning to exist

32. Ancient middle eastern ascetics

35. “All in the Family” spinoff

36. “Tropic of ___,” Henry Miller novel

38. Tchaikovsky's first name

40. Remainder

43. Ball with four projecting spikes

45. Pen denizen

46. CAT's cousin

48. “Kate & ___”

49. Gibbons of TV

51. Lamb's lament

52. Grandmother, affectionately

53. Col.'s boss

54. Spare parts?

Solution

55. Alphabetic trio

56. Result of the 16th Amendment

58. Book three of Henry Miller's Rosy Crucifixion

59. Frozen Wasser

60. “A poem begins as ___ in the throat”: Frost

61. Staggering

62. ER staffers

63. Snap course

64. Move laterally

Down

1. “Black ___,” Henry Miller novel

2. Pledge

3. Quantities

4. St. Louis gridders

5. Printer's widths

6. Line part: Abbr.

7. Survive

8. Chinese island

9. Radius partner

10. Get hard

11. Got used (to)

12. Unintelligent

13. Prime

22. Cheerful

24. The Globe, for one

25. Amateur

26. One in the red

27. Catherine I, for one

31. “In the Land of Israel” author

33. Nova follower

34. Military address

37. Gospel singer Winans

38. Heroic champion

39. Ailment

41. Pure

42. Common temple name

43. “Tropic of ___,” Henry Miller novel

44. Book two of Henry Miller's Rosy Crucifixion

47. Fight a b'ar, maybe

50. Opposition

53. Shindig

54. Gilpin of “Frasier”

56. Menlo Park initials

57. Where it's good to lose

58. Govt. advisory org.