puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Girl who may say "nae"

  5 Military wear, informally

  9 Rhyming nickname for a '90s-'00s Britcom

 14 Boat in "Jaws"

 15 Acted just like

 16 Navajo or Pueblo

 17 Tournament favorite

 19 Cliffside nest

 20 Souvenir shop garment

 21 Comes down hard?

 22 Opposite NNE

 23 Abbr. at the end of a business name

 24 Geological period

 25 Problem-solve

 29 Simple chord

 32 Word said with a sigh

 33 Apply

 34 Houston university

 35 Try to prevent

 37 "A Hard Road to Glory" author Arthur

 38 Tribute from a poet

 39 West Coast gas brand

 40 Cook, as clams

 41 Diagram of options

 45 Photographer Adams

 46 Suffix for "rocket"

 47 "Te ___" (Spanish for "I love you")

 50 Item an Olympian hurls

 52 Heart hit with the words "I cast my spell of love on you"

 54 Buzzing with activity

 55 Yield the desired result

 56 Bogus

 57 A single time

 58 Annapolis initials

 59 Fabric for a professor's jacket

 60 Ram like a goat

 61 Like the observation "Crosswords are similar to life ..."

DOWN

  1 Top housing options?

  2 Astrological ram

  3 Fastener that may be loose

  4 Back talk

  5 Slots' spot

  6 Brief outline

  7 Convene

  8 Not divisible by two

  9 Bewildered

 10 Bottom-first kind of birth

 11 Building with a bell and a pole

 12 Not much

 13 Flower pollinators

 18 Bronze medalist's place

 21 Pointy pickle piece

 24 Fashion magazine

 25 ___ Bo (exercise system)

 26 Conductor's stick

 27 Dept. of Labor arm

 28 Abound

 29 Put one's foot down?

 30 Carnival attraction

 31 Ornate-but-temporary winter structure

 35 Towels off

 36 Natural resource management subj.

 37 Absorbed, as a cost

 39 Gave confidence to

 40 Bottom line on a letter, say?

 42 Cut with a scalpel

 43 It led to a 1773 Boston "party"

 44 Wish undone

 47 Get a smile out of

 48 Acadia National Park's state

 49 Available from a keg

 50 Ridiculous, to a Brit

 51 Translation of Caesar's "vidi"

 52 Computer list

 53 "Phooey!"

 55 Go up and down

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