CARRYING CHARGES
ACROSS
1 Ethereal glows 6 Replace a button, say 9 What roller coasters roll on 14 Drink noisily 15 Self-promoter’s trait 16 Movie with the song “Tomorrow” 17 Tense situation, symbolically 19 Lasso loop 20 Word in Mexican place names 21 Kindergarten sculpture material 22 Sarongs and tutus 23 Reducer’s regimen 24 Open one’s wallet 25 Belief mentioned in the Apostles’ Creed 31 States unashamedly 32 Taboo contraction, to a grammar purist 33 ___’wester 34 Sinise who portrayed Truman 35 Goes for a dip 37 Computer input or output 38 Number in many odds figures 39 Travel like free-range chickens 40 Gown material 41 Homeless shelter, e.g. 45 Cavity filler 46 Name at airport rental counters 47 Trough in a nativity scene 49 Hedge shears sound 50 Pompeii coating 53 NBA legend Baylor 54 Feature of some contracts, and a hint to 17-, 25- and 41-Across 56 Blood flow restorer 57 Big bother 58 Like most of Wyoming 59 Tender spots 60 Tiara sparkler 61 Walk like the Hulk
DOWN
1 Seeks permission from 2 Elbow-to-wrist bone 3 Cause to go bankrupt 4 Reply to “Speak, boy!” 5 Homo sapiens, for man 6 Hit with a tranquilizer dart, say 7 Like custard 8 Gloom and doom 9 Most foul-smelling 10 Apply holy oil to 11 Uncalled-for 12 Santa’s reference 13 Takes a meeting with 18 Dist. above sea level 22 Bridge measures 23 Like grass at dawn, perhaps 24 Unlikely, as odds go 25 Nigeria’s largest city 26 Predecessor of Marla and Melania 27 Pointing digit 28 Sam who directed “Spider-Man” 29 Away from home 30 Portrait on the fifty 35 Technique using underwater acoustics 36 Like permed hair 37 Hydropower structures 39 Backs off 40 SWAT marksmen 42 Diesel or Wankel invention 43 Like the outcome of a dice roll 44 “Amores” poet 47 Slob’s creation 48 Glee club voice 49 Polygon part 50 Hairstyle in “Hair” 51 Tailor’s border 52 Call to a lifeguard 54 Woman with a stereotypically warty nose 55 Morsel in tavern mix