Today's crossword
ACROSS
1 Fancy alternative to a classic necktie
6 Time sheet abbr.
9 Meat salad from Laos
13 Shop
14 Informal assent
15 Third-longest African river
16 “Push It” hip-hop trio
18 Verdi work
19 “Am __ picky?”
20 Mattel game based on Crazy Eights
21 Spoke monotonously
22 Omen
23 Mardi Gras
25 Traveler’s stopover
26 Hypotheticals
27 Crumb-carrying critter
28 App annoyances
29 Microbe
31 Freeze over
33 Chef and cookbook writer whose four elements of cooking are the first words of the answers to 16-, 23-, 48-, and 56-Across
37 Extinct birds 38 Russian denial
40 Foldable bed
43 2016 Summer Olympics city
44 Meditation sounds
46 Period of history
48 Inclination to use biting sarcasm
51 Quick cut
52 Say again
53 GPS suggestion
54 Support staff member
55 Artist’s stand
56 “Feels like” figure that combines temperature and humidity
58 Foul moods
59 “I __ your pardon?”
60 “Basic Instinct” actress Sharon
61 IRS IDs
62 Poem of praise
63 Puts a stop to
DOWN
1 Birthplace of St. Francis
2 Announcing
3 Choices at perfume counters
4 WWE champion Randy who had a long rivalry with John Cena
5 Low card in a royal flush
6 African scavengers whose cries sound like laughter
7 Transplant in the greenhouse
8 Relaxation station
9 Slimming surgeries, informally
10 Meeting outline
11 Go over again, as a contract
12 Blended sitcom family of classic TV
15 “All sales are final”
17 Bit of smoke
21 Sand formations
24 Snack in a shell
26 Mount Olympus dwellers, e.g.
30 “Awesome!”
31 Allstate’s industry: Abbr.
32 Foot the bill
34 “American __”: rock musical based on a Green Day album
35 Twelve sharp
36 Many a Disney Channel star
39 Poseidon’s staff
40 Gentle touch
41 Quite a lot
42 Deflects through a basketball rim
44 Electrical interruption
45 Run into
47 Pinnacles
49 Info, slangily
50 Avarice
51 Father Christmas
56 “Barry” cable network
57 “Or so” suffix