puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Des Moines' home

  5 Texting format, briefly

  8 Convert into a movie script, say

 13 Mall business

 14 ___ Lane (Superboy's mom)

 16 Sidestep

 17 Insignificant amount (notice letters 5 to 8 in this answer)

 20 Scold loudly

 21 Where a child may learn canoeing

 22 "Alas ..."

 23 Hasbro game with voice commands

 24 Number of capitals Bolivia has

 27 Approximately

 28 Reporter's retinue (6 to 9)

 30 Positive or negative particles

 31 "Common Sense" author Thomas

 32 Develop a plot?

 36 Offers bait to

 37 Texas' Battle of the ___

 38 Money plant?

 40 Not be yourself (3 to 5)

 43 Gala who inspired a surrealist

 47 Visualize

 48 "Home ___" (film about a failed burglary)

 49 Exorcist's target

 50 Lambs' fathers

 51 "Very neat!"

 52 Colby, for one (8 to 11)

 57 Disney's "Little Mermaid"

 58 Painter Francisco

 59 "Yeah, sure!"

 60 Drive back

 61 Not gross, financially

 62 Covers, as a highway

DOWN

  1 "Because ___!" (parental justification)

  2 "Good heavens!"

  3 Earthlike planets

  4 Moon landing program

  5 Narrow cut

  6 Day after Sun.

  7 "Friends" and "Modern Family"

  8 Program that finds homes for cats and dogs

  9 Medic

 10 Suffix with "Gator"

 11 Drivers' grp.?

 12 What half the letters of "twenty" spell

 15 Square, usually, for a crossword grid

 18 ___ through the nose

 19 Middle Eastern ruler

 23 Prohibition

 24 "Journey" for your ego

 25 Came and ___

 26 Is under obligation

 28 Liberal arts college in 1-Across

 29 Surveillance device, briefly

 30 Boast heard at the roulette table

 32 Drains of strength

 33 Pointer to an answer

 34 Really, really dislike

 35 Brooding rock subgenre

 36 Mine explosive's letters

 38 Large, imposing house

 39 Word before "cream" or "crystal"

 41 Comedian King

 42 Menu reassurance

 43 Good liar's skill

 44 One-celled organism

 45 Slacker?

 46 Features along a coast

 49 Play-___

 51 "Go away!"

 52 All's fair in love and this

 53 Anger

 54 Taste of a beverage

 55 Average grade

 56 12/31: Abbr.

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