ACROSS

1. Plant anchor
5. Special Wednesday for Christians
8. Damaging precipitation
12. Car in neutral
13. Highest adult male singing voice
14. Cher's ex
15. Yuletide
16. High part of day
17. Get up
18. February shadow seeker
20. "____, over here"
21. Relating to a convolution of brain
22. Little piggie
23. Accept without proof
26. A global problem?
30. Done to an "i"
31. Church leader
34. "At another time" to Shakespeare
35. 1st letter of Hebrew alphabet
37. Children's card game
38. 2nd most populous country
39. 6th wife of Henry VIII
40. Scam artist
42. PST plus three
43. Christmas star location?
45. ____ the Great, king of Persia
47. Most highly proteinaceous vegetable
48. Nigerian monetary unit
50. Kiln for drying hops
52. High-speed, high-altitude wind
56. Empower
57. Gaelic
58. European sea eagle
59. Nature's rage
60. Day before, pl.
61. Shark sightings
62. Impersonate
63. Lives in a pod
64. "The ____ have it"

DOWN

1. Cash's is on fire
2. Detected by olfactory
3. Butter substitute
4. Dravidian language of southeastern India
5. Pacific greeting
6. Seat at the bar
7. ____ Kong
8. Equestrian
9. Black tropical cuckoo
10. Of the present month
11. Strong solution of sodium
13. Singer Bocelli
14. Power of affecting taste buds
19. It's usually depicted as a beautiful maiden
22. Under feathers
23. Change to suit new purpose
24. Daytime energy
25. Cubic meter
26. Live bait
27. Pointer
28. Can be loud or white
29. Warm weather brings these small biting flies
32. An equal exchange
33. Summer condition?
36. Exerted by the atmosphere
38. Unable to move
40. Provocatively shy
41. Asian spotted deer, pl.
44. Native American pole
46. Lessen the density
48. Courage to go on
49. On a cruise
50. To a place on
51. Fusses
52. Auto trademark turned generic
53. Great Lake
54. Tolstoy's Karenina
55. Army ____ hall
56. Extrasensory perception