"Pay Up!"
by Fred Piscop

Across

1. Invites to one's penthouse
6. E-mailed, say
10. Adds turf to
14. Emcee's line
15. Song for a diva
16. Make ready, for short
17. Two movies for the price of one
19. New York stage award
20. Pull the plug on
21. Just-for-fun activity
22. Lead into temptation
24. Current carrier
25. Made bootees, maybe
26. Decrease
29. Shoreline protector
30. __-trump (bridge bid)
31. Copenhagen native
32. "Now, where __ I?"
35. Pre-employment investigation
39. Publicity, slangily
40. Start of a choose-up rhyme
41. Take another stab
42. Exercise, as influence
44. Breaks down grammatically
45. Does a winter chore
48. Cries out loud
49. Thanksgiving Day spectacle
50. Job detail, briefly
51. Game akin to Crazy Eights
54. Threw the bull
55. Word processor's number aligner
58. Burn remedy
59. Lendl of the courts
60. New Hampshire campus
61. "Guarding __" (MacLaine movie)
62. Partner of rank and serial number
63. Op-ed piece, e.g.

Down

1. Evade the seeker
2. Bartlett's abbr.
3. Poker variety
4. City area, slangily
5. Frog-to-be
6. Buffalo skater
7. Composer Satie
8. Zilch
9. Interesting to a scout
10. Lacking consistency
11. Sputnik's path
12. Spread salt on, maybe
13. Risk a citation
18. Bring home
23. Little louse
24. Policy __ (D.C. maven)
25. Saxman __ G
26. Mongolian desert
27. __ even keel
28. Swabbie's workplace
29. Short trip
31. Busy folks
32. Hoses down
33. Field measure
34. "The __ the limit!"
36. Pulled onto the boat
37. Baltimore seafood treat
38. Towel word
42. Gives the slip to
43. Crossed out
44. Limerick, for one
45. Pie-in-the-face sound
46. Ethiopia's __ Selassie
47. Twistable cookies
48. __-tingling (eerie)
50. Shell game
51. Beehive State Indians
52. Nickname for mom's mom
53. Do as directed
56. One of the Gabors
57. Guitarist __ Paul

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