Puzzle

ACROSS

  1 Shady spot

  6 Slices

 10 0.05-gallon item, perhaps

 12 0.25-gallon item, perhaps

 16 Occasion for a gift basket?

 17 First performance

 18 Rumble in the Jungle boxer

 19 Boot from office

 21 Square ones don't fit in round holes

 22 1-gallon item, perhaps

 25 4-gallon item, perhaps

 28 In weariness

 30 Be nosy

 31 Legal

 32 Sioux City resident

 34 "History Detectives" network

 37 Affirmative votes

 38 Usually wearable award

 39 Island ESE of Oahu

 40 Either end of "sinuous"

 41 Saddle ___ (riders' woes)

 42 Major artery

 43 Alias letters

 44 Researcher's garb

 46 12-gallon item, perhaps

 50 15.5-gallon item, perhaps

 52 0 shape

 53 Parisian pal

 55 Before, to Dickinson

 56 Aquarium gadgets

 59 Solidify

 62 39-gallon item, perhaps

 63 300-gallon item, perhaps

 64 Word after "personality" or "taste"

 65 Vicious

DOWN

  1 Starting squad

  2 States of truth

  3 Saint Peter's and Saint Mary Major

  4 Mo. with the most candy sales

  5 Regret

  6 Mine transports

  7 Function

  8 Hanks who played Mister Rogers

  9 Like a short email?

 11 Arrogant

 12 U.K. legislators

 13 Gladiator or Wrangler

 14 Jason's ship

 15 Repose

 20 More like some holiday sweaters

 23 ___ Kross ("Jump" rap duo)

 24 Fast plane

 26 National gemstone of Australia

 27 Big cocoa holder

 29 Sing from the mountaintops

 31 Soapmaking ingredient

 33 Sushi condiment

 34 Pets bookended by "pets"

 35 Long-necked squash type

 36 "Chandelier" singer

 38 Gripe

 39 Tie to a dock

 41 Jamaican music genre

 42 One may be in the hole

 43 Finally

 45 Tree that sounds like it should be coastal?

 46 Often-bearded animal

 47 Say confidently

 48 Poet Teasdale

 49 K, at Kay

 51 Make do

 54 Flavor enhancer, briefly

 57 It's definite

 58 Childbirth docs

 60 Extremely long time

 61 NYC subway acronym

 

Solution

Newspaper headline: Crossword