ACROSS

1. Loud cheer

5. Defensive nuclear weapon (abbr.)

8. Type of cell

11. Oblong pulpits

13. Pitching statistic 14 Uncommon

15. Liabilities

16. Thin, straight bar

17. Oh goodness!

18. Competitions

20. __ Jima, WW II battlefield

21. Professional assn. (abbr.)

22. Italian mountain range

25. Taking possession of

30. Used in cooking and medicine

31. Water (French)

32. Parent a child

33. Sun-dried brick

38. One point south of due east

41. Female fashion accessory

43. A way of making a copy of

45. A way to debilitate

47. Wings

49. Social insect

50. Dull brown fabrics

55. Indian musical pattern

56. N. England university

57. Portable stands for coffins

59. Iranian district

60. Envision

61. Passerine bird genus

62. Container

63. Falter

64. Tunisian city

DOWN

1. Cool!

2. Passover offering

3. Swedish rock group

4. Collegiate military organization

5. Large nests

6. Beloved baked good

7. 1980s pop legend

8. Finger millet

9. Hillside

10. Surrender

12. Midway between south and southeast

14. Long, narrow strap

19. Discount

23. A type of cast

24. Large, tropical lizard

25. Half of ‘Milli Vanilli’

26. Single

27. Big truck

28. Midway between east and southeast

29. Et __: indicates further

34. Insecticide

35. Luke Skywalker’s mentor __-Wan

36. Cast out

37. Breakfast food

39. By reason of

40. One who makes thread

41. Baseball stat

42. Breezed through

44. Frothy mass of bubbles

45. Tony-winning actress Daisy

46. Made of fermented honey and water

47. Member of a Semitic people

48. Monetary unit of the Maldives

51. Run batted in

52. Makes publicly known

53. Disagreement

54. Soluble ribonucleic acid

58. Single-reed instrument