8. Soccer position

15. Garden tool

16. Choice words at the bakery, maybe

17. Hanna-__ Productions

18. Responds to "I never got it"

19. Drowned valley, maybe

20. "...would smell __"

22. Three-day holiday

23. 2000 candidate

25. Handy thing to know?: abbr.

26. "Brave New World" drug

27. Stick with it

28. "Midnight Cowboy" character

30. "Hop __!"

31. Cynthia of "Northern Exposure"

33. Kid's obstinate display

35. Be in a favorable position

37. Wegovy doses

40. Dick Grayson's alter ego

44. Seaside flier

45. Sporting contests

47. Press

48. Sly Foxx

49. Ties might require them, briefly

50. Bruckner et al.

52. Wall St. news

53. With audacity

55. Zinger

56. Last of the French?

58. Kitchen hazard

60. Like Monday crosswords

61. Soon to be delivered

62. Politico Michael and author Danielle

63. Naysayers

1. Home of the U.S. Army Airborne Forces

2. It has many tangible points

3. Puerto Rican shaved ice dessert

4. Fed. number-crunching gp.

5. Blacken

6. Clipped to a greater extent

7. Mmes., to Don Juan

8. Sort of cardiac examination

9. Present, as a dessert tray

10. __ Room

11. Tanning time on the Riviera

12. Seaplane float

13. Native to a certain region

14. Make clearer, hopefully

21. Like dry cleaning

24. Hans Christian __ (pioneer of electromagnetism)

26. Sign on a moping teen's door

29. They may be made with Granny Smiths

32. Pup squeak

34. Env. filler

36. Ethnicity in and near Indonesia

37. Pooh-poohs

38. "To reiterate ... "

39. Countersign

41. Trite comment

42. Snub issuer

43. Birds or wasps

46. Like the Atlantic

51. Hose material

53. Jessica of "The Illusionist"

54. It's over your head

57. Cologne "never"

59. Pt. of TGIF