puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Bed wear, briefly

  4 Place for mascara

  8 Pretty poor grade

 13 Sea creature that rhymes with "seal"

 14 Neckwear for Fred of "Scooby-Doo"

 16 Like the Blarney Stone

 17 Golf ball prop

 18 Bejeweled topper

 19 Barely managed

 20 James Bond or Jason Bourne (In this clue's answer, see letters 9-6)

 23 Moocher

 24 Winter Olympians in goggles

 27 John, in Britain

 28 "... yadda, yadda, yadda"

 30 Some jabs in boxing

 33 Hidden danger (... letters 9-5)

 36 One of the Mannings

 37 Too showy

 38 Santa ___ winds

 39 Train conductor's cry (... letters 5-2)

 42 Gives a bit

 44 Certain mobsters

 45 Item in a pod

 46 Disgraces

 48 Wipes away

 51 Change in what's happening, or a theme hint

 54 Renaissance Faire instruments

 57 Crop up

 58 Bit of body art, in slang

 59 Debate topic

 60 More ghostly

 61 Kind of trip for the conceited

 62 Fruits that taper upward

 63 "Shall we?" reply

 64 One at the gym?


DOWN

  1 Hamsters and others

  2 Army autos

  3 Catch some Z's

  4 Ricky Martin and Alex Rodriguez, for two

  5 Cheesy bagel choice

  6 1-10, e.g.

  7 Dance at a Jewish wedding

  8 Worthiness of respect

  9 Shield

 10 Extremely fun, as a party

 11 Type of port for a thumb drive

 12 Like a wallflower

 15 Makes it?

 21 Filly's counterpart

 22 Barely make it

 25 Showed in syndication, say

 26 Spot to testify

 29 IRS experts

 30 Rachel's sister

 31 ___ Island (onetime arrival point for immigrants)

 32 Smut

 33 Sheep's bleat

 34 The "O" of SOS, supposedly

 35 Like 1, 3, 5, 7 ...

 37 One who's toast

 40 No expert

 41 Puzzles

 42 Animals on Canadian nickels

 43 Lack of hardships

 45 Like favorite stations on a car radio

 47 Partner of Crackle and Pop

 48 Submit a tax return online

 49 PC key above Shift

 50 All the world, to Shakespeare

 52 Exam given face-to-face

 53 Octagonal street sign

 54 Something to gloss over?

 55 Employ

 56 Grp. with full-body scanners

solution