puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Home, in Honduras

  5 Longoria of "Desperate Housewives"

  8 Guy "cut out of" 24-Across?

 11 Cavalry sword

 12 Practice for a fight

 13 Catch a glimpse of

 14 "Moving along from the eighth part of my box set ..."?

 16 Burn balm

 17 Stereotypical programmer

 18 Apiece

 19 Actors' accessories

 20 "Hey, can I run this by you?"

 22 Friendliness

 24 Schmoozes in Hollywood?

 28 Discard at the junkyard

 31 Number of letters in QWERTYUIOP

 32 Guy "cut out of" 14-Across?

 33 What Miss Muffet had with curds

 34 Lifting machine

 36 "Now," to a doctor

 37 Guy "cut out of" 56-Across?

 38 "___ the land of the free ..."

 39 Call up

 40 Piece of gossip about someone forgetting to clean the coffee maker?

 45 Fluster

 46 Country east of Ethiopia

 50 It eats shoots and leaves

 52 Noted Nile queen, casually

 54 Influence

 55 Danish shoe brand

 56 Broadway backer who also works in security?

 58 God with a war chariot

 59 Elbows' places

 60 Itsy-bitsy

 61 Guy "cut out of" 40-Across?

 62 Dash forward and backward?

 63 Alternatively

DOWN

  1 Small part in "Downsizing," perhaps

  2 Scrub, as a rocket launch

  3 Dismiss

  4 Shape of a bow

  5 Grand-scale story

  6 Eddie of rock

  7 Exist

  8 Supports steadfastly

  9 Psy's genre

 10 Body parts that may be blue

 11 Perform in an opera

 12 Nosh

 13 Everyone's mother?

 15 Antlered animal

 19 Photo

 21 Absorb, with "up"

 23 Challenge for a barber

 25 Apt-sounding surname for an astronomer

 26 Multicolored horse

 27 "Volume off" button

 28 Gulp of whiskey

 29 Blacken

 30 Gives up, as a claim

 34 The "C" in UPC

 35 Treatment that relieves stress

 36 Dangerous bits of metal

 39 Yappy toy dog, for short

 41 Beehives and buns

 42 Cipher-cracking org.

 43 Computer operators

 44 Atmosphere

 47 Olympics sleds

 48 "Mr. Belvedere" actress Graff

 49 One on your side

 50 Thunderclap

 51 Cropland measure

 53 Light source

 56 Space between teeth

 57 Downed a sub, say?

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