Puzzle

 ACROSS



  1 Intensifies, with "up"

  5 Happy-sounding building support

 10 Economist Smith

 14 In ___ of

 15 Black ___ (deadly biter)

 16 "Forbidden" perfume

 17 Kind of appeal

 18 *Religious houses

 20 Salve

 22 Crows' homes

 23 They have their pluses and minuses

 24 Hats, slangily

 26 Classified work notice?

 29 *Sun shade

 32 Glorify

 33 Animal known for its laugh

 34 Spot on a die

 36 Gel-producing succulent

 37 Peter, Paul or Mary

 38 Striped candy shape

 39 Sleep study topic, briefly

 40 Eschews

 41 Care for

 42 *Beekeeper's injury

 44 How grapefruit may taste

 45 Landlord's due

 46 O. Henry's "The Gift of the ___"

 47 Hitching post?

 50 Bedtime drink

 54 *On the throne

 57 "My bad!"

 58 Timbuktu's land

 59 Idiot

 60 Strummed instruments, for short

 61 On ___ (without a contract)

 62 Knight's ride

 63 TTYL or TTFN

DOWN



  1 "The Sun ___ Rises"

  2 Small M&Ms size

  3 Lowly laborer

  4 *Not obvious

  5 Loom

  6 Cows' abodes

  7 Discharge, as light

  8 Blood-typing letters

  9 Cover with graffiti, say

 10 Bear witness

 11 Honoree's spot

 12 Help with a job?

 13 Rumple

 19 Ink type that's also a country

 21 Castle defense

 24 Property claims

 25 "___ that special?!"

 26 Become tiresome

 27 Wheelturners

 28 Model Campbell

 29 Competing

 30 Eyeball-bending works

 31 Dentist's directive

 33 What ghosts do

 35 ___ pressure

 37 Knee-ankle connector

 38 "Enough!"... or how to make sense of each starred answer

 40 Back of a boat

 41 Approaching, in poetry

 43 Calamitous

 44 Assisted at checkout

 46 Chop finely

 47 Treaty subject

 48 Ballet move

 49 Mah-jongg piece

 50 Zero key neighbor

 51 Share a ___ (soda slogan)

 52 Culminating point

 53 (Hey ... over here!)

 55 Driver's license and others: Abbr.

 56 Egyptian boy king

Solution