The Daily Commuter puzzle

ACROSS

1 Not as much 5 Lincoln and others 9 Shapeless mass 13 Take place 15 TV’s “Let’s Make a __” 16 __ about; praise highly 17 Out of __; in poor condition 18 Raw 20 Lid 21 Actor Kilmer 23 Parents and grandparents 24 Kick out 26 Chum 27 Entertain sumptuously 29 Courtroom break 32 Got up 33 Avoid, as one’s duties 35 Womanizer 37 Biting fly 38 Namesakes of a Beatle 39 Monotonous speaker 40 Command to Fido 41 Perhaps 42 Hell’s ruler 43 Prose works 45 “Cool!” in a past decade 46 Male turkey 47 Dog walker’s restraint 48 Give confidence to 51 Last month: abbr. 52 Preschooler 55 Of the essential nature of a thing 58 Desire greatly 60 Housekeeper 61 Grow weary 62 Remained optimistic 63 Nimble 64 Ran fast 65 Lairs

DOWN

1 Milton’s “Paradise __” 2 Reverberate 3 Fall guys 4 Eat 5 Grown-up 6 Jerry Stiller’s son 7 Word attached to wax or ache 8 Pullman cars 9 Horse’s headgear 10 “Penny __”; Beatles song 11 Above 12 Hospital furniture 14 Bad-mouth 19 Singer Roberta 22 Part of a royal flush 25 Extensive 27 Tattered clothing 28 “Sesame Street” fellow 29 Make angry 30 Gift wrapper’s need 31 Genesis name 33 “__ who?”; skeptic’s query 34 Wheel center 36 Declare untrue 38 Monetary compensations 39 Lamb’s cries 41 Early New Zealander 42 __ for; try to find 44 Firmly built 45 Get-up-and-go 47 Intertwined 48 Shoots carefully 49 Ginger cookie 50 Recipe verb 53 Large kitchen appliance 54 Kennedy and others 56 Use a straw 57 Wrath 59 Stewart or Serling