1. Bit of a loaded conversation?
2. Town SE of Sacramento
3. Grp. organizing '60s sit-ins
4. Sworn statement
5. Desert bordering the Mojave
6. Dis but not dat?
7. Retreat
8. Montreal football team
9. Ransacks
10. Popular British brew
11. School email suffix
12. Money replaced by euros
13. Harbor vessels
14. Barrie henchman
16. Cuts for agts.
21. Major events in two sports
23. Noxious
24. In pursuit of
25. Irascible
26. Condemned man's request
27. Faris and Gunn
28. Allen of the Green Mountain Boys
29. Gather for old times' sake
30. Guayaquil girls: abbr.
32. Expert on the drums?
34. Hunt's rival
37. They have substantial bills
38. Short thing for a diva
40. Mason title phrase
42. Old record holder
43. Fed. accident investigator
44. Blacken
45. Nevada slots spot
47. One of the Katzenjammer Kids
48. Leave the runway
49. One-time neighbor of French Indochina
50. "Frozen Fever" queen
52. Called with chips
53. Pt. of AARP