9. __ curve

15. Numbing agent

16. Not at all eager

17. Awaiting burial

18. Go extinct

19. Ristorante desserts

20. Senate stars?

21. Most massive dwarf planet in the solar system

22. Foot fivesome

25. Witchy woman

26. Scout group

27. Some kids are fussy ones

30. NBA star Dave who became mayor of Detroit

31. Gambles

33. Traumatic memory problem

36. Morphed

37. Original commandments medium

39. Sticky situation

40. Physicist Angström

41. Hack

44. 987.2 kilograms

45. Food gp.

46. Take a bath

47. Take the role of

49. Ebbed

53. Kind of water

55. Bearing gifts?

56. "__ Game" (2013 sci-fi film)

57. A bit much

58. Childish relative of "yuh huh"

59. Fresh infusion

1. Emulated Maxwell Perkins

2. Poe subject

3. Samantha Stephens's husband on "Bewitched"

4. Dramatist Clifford

5. Unwanted collection, briefly

6. Shortly, quaintly

7. Lydic of "The Daily Show"

8. Matricidal figure of myth

9. Boy

10. Some sneakers

11. Tolls

12. __ at the mouth

13. Progressive competitor

14. Marked down, maybe

23. Ancient consultant

24. Tessellating artist

27. No effort

28. Husky alternatives

29. "__ Sympathy" (1956 Deborah Kerr film)

30. Embargoes

31. Out house?

32. Stovepipes, e.g.

33. Per a previous stipulation

34. Resort town W. of the Delaware Water Gap

35. Midday

38. Waldenbooks old rival

41. Braggart's insistence

42. Big name in skin care

43. Hooked up with

45. Software buyers

46. Three-time U.S. Open winner

48. Orders at McSorleys

50. Wasp's nest site

51. Bunch

52. Kosovo resident

54. Name associated with chicken