1. It raises all boats, they say
11. Pops
15. Against stateside norms
16. Direction at sea
17. Small pleasure craft
18. It may be quantified in gigs
19. Three-kind connection
20. Clear the way to
21. Like Schubert's music
22. Word with student or shark
24. Literary world traveler Phileas
25. Virginia Tech player
26. E-K run
28. Castrating
30. __ card
32. Carnival treats
33. Passed quickly
36. Quick and thorough learner
37. "Dark Shadows" vampire
39. Three-mo. period
40. "Bad choice by me"
42. Historic Quebec city
46. Early French filmmaker Abel
47. Saturnine
49. Reclusive fictional captain
50. Bradley, Epps, and others
51. Tunes (out)
53. Camp supervisor-to-be, briefly
54. Start of a classic question
55. Tibial problem, informally
57. __ Stanley Gardner
58. Tennessee Williams play, with "The"
59. Owning evidence
60. Xenophobe's bane