9. First name in Olympics perfection

14. All-encompassing, as a body scan

15. Crisp covering

16. "It's __" ("I'm better than that")

17. Troubled

18. Hot

19. "Kate & __" (1980s sitcom)

20. Very

21. Dispensers at banquets

22. Doesn't stay in

23. However

24. Subject of numerous hoaxes

25. Sell off one's stock

26. Song verse

28. Some peppers

30. "__ Rock" (1966 hit)

32. Support beam

33. Principles

37. Barack, Michelle, Hillary and Bill took them, for short

41. Ninth, usually

42. Fool (around)

44. Adán's mate in la Biblia

45. Formal will

46. Negotiator's goal

47. Bed with high sides

48. __ nullius (no man's land)

49. Top of the pops

51. He said "Most editors are failed writers — but so are most writers"

52. Unpleasant sort

53. Something to get a kick out of

54. Guards

55. Leo with the 1977 #1 hit "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"

56. Blunt

1. Escorted to the door

2. Game with melding

3. Phrase usually abbreviated

4. H, R or E, e.g.

5. "You got that right!"

6. Besides

7. 9-Across's homeland

8. Searches for

9. Culmination of March Madness

10. Aesthetes

11. Fighter at ten paces

12. Declaration after "because"

13. Declares to be true

14. Cold War threats

24. A long time after

25. Pat

27. Essential part

29. Splitting in two

31. Its chapel was designed by Eero Saarinen, briefly

33. House-cleaning tools

34. "Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind" speaker

35. Elucidate

36. Sent free of charge

38. Does some golf course maintenance

39. Some series stars

40. Sharp weapons

43. City on Tampa Bay, familiarly

46. Astronomical appearance

47. Tall wading bird

50. Indigo plant