Puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Gripping device

  6 Iams competitor

 10 Not far

 14 Variety show

 15 Struggling to decide

 16 Whale such as Willy

 17 ___ on the cake

 18 Jon's dog, in comics

 19 Word after "Iowa" or "Kansas"

 20 *World's fastest commercial electric train

 23 One may have gel ink

 24 "Indeed!"

 25 One of linen's natural colors

 26 *It could be LCD or plasma

 31 What a business doesn't want to be in

 34 Property of a color

 35 Newborn's vocal milestone

 36 American Eagle lingerie line

 37 Top of a Santa costume

 38 Eastwood of Hollywood

 40 Streaming delay

 41 Word with very different meanings after "dog" and "cat"

 42 "Now it's clear!"

 43 *Nissan Rogue, e.g.

 47 Make simpler

 48 Volleyball filler

 49 ___ Eaux de Chanel

 52 Dispenser of small items ... or, when read as three parts, a hint to the starred answers

 56 Antifur org.

 57 Certain marsupials, colloquially

 58 Believer in kama and karma

 59 What a joke is said in

 60 To be, to the French

 61 Some waffles

 62 Eye affliction

 63 Catch sight of

 64 "Modern Family" and "Friends"

DOWN

  1 Dessert with a crumbly topping

  2 Milk, in Mexico

  3 Bird-related

  4 Olivia of "The Newsroom"

  5 "Fever" singer

  6 "Raise your glasses ..."

  7 Zinfandel town

  8 Butcher's top-notch offering

  9 43,560 square feet

 10 "Dunno"

 11 Shallowest Great Lake

 12 Final part of a play, often

 13 Flat fish

 21 Colorful part of a match

 22 Aspiring M.A.'s test

 26 Sat. preceder

 27 Rectangle or rhombus

 28 Police drama since 2003

 29 "I don't like your ___!" (parent's warning)

 30 Go to the polls

 31 Controversial powder

 32 Word repeated to express agreement

 33 Therefore

 37 Those without

 38 Many have steeples

 39 Tyler who played Arwen

 41 "Not a chance!"

 42 Giant pandas' continent

 44 House's counterpart

 45 Gloomy

 46 Jazz great ___ Lewis

 49 Jargon

 50 Fund

 51 "Dr." of children's literature

 52 Nair alternative

 53 Vintage goods website

 54 Trail mix

 55 ___-voltage

 56 Jammies

Solution