5. Saddam Hussein's birth city

11. Ego, to Freud

14. Onetime Canaveral name

16. Dundee denial

17. Baccarat form

18. Sandy's only line, in the comics

19. Journalist Farrow et al.

20. Panoramic picture

22. Fixed

24. Cal __

25. 1891 title mother of an infant named Sorrow

26. Drinks before dinner, maybe

31. Suffix that may appear in a record

32. Come down __

33. Inaptly named part of the elbow

34. Publisher of The New Yorker

35. "Today" rival, briefly

38. Copper head?

39. Yacht spot

40. Skeptic's retort

41. 1972 Olympics city

43. Pulitzer-winning sportswriter

48. Joust against

49. It follows April in Paris

50. It might brush a batter back

52. Quantity: abbr.

53. Beginning piano student's exercise

54. Snake's warning

55. Andy of the "LOTR" franchise

56. I, O or U

1. Grow together

2. Ace QB Patrick

3. Least obfuscated

4. Hires new guys for

5. Prompter's cue

6. Pol. choice

7. "I __ it!"

8. Bank offering, briefly

9. Chose from the lineup

10. Home to a Shakespearean prince

11. Stuck

12. Doorstep numbers?

13. Substantial

15. Caring

21. Cathedral topper

23. Certain domain suffix

27. Noted WWE female enforcer

28. They're skewered

29. Some sportscars

30. Frowned-upon contraction

32. It's carried at a karaoke bar

33. Abundant sources

34. Collaborates on an anthology

35. __ stop (plosive sound)

36. Prayer wish

37. Perpendicular line in a regular polygon

38. Construction supports

39. Do some film editing

40. Soul singer Thomas and food writer Rombauer

42. Trey trio

44. They pick up sounds

45. "I've Got the Music __"

46. Leader in the Crimean War

47. Alphabetic run

51. "Heck, yeah!"