Spiff It Up! by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Face protectors 6. Ness or Lomond 10. Uses a bookie 14. Bandleader Shaw 15. Mezzo's offering 16. Like hens' teeth, proverbially 17. Satellite spiffer-upper? 19. Atlas stat 20. McKellen or Holm 21. Trident prong 22. Happy hour buys 24. Solitary one 26. Caught in the act 27. Org. dealing with aliens 28. Famous 32. Classic toothpaste 35. Wealthy one 36. High point 37. Ancient letter 38. Prepared like shepherd's pie 39. Spanker, e.g. 40. Travel guide list 41. Mideast's Gulf of __ 42. Midway alternative 43. Like shish kebab 45. Caesar's salutation 46. Millennia upon millennia 47. Breastbone 51. Solidarity leader in Poland 54. Carson's TV predecessor 55. "How was __ know?" 56. Basketballer's target 57. Harvest spiffer-upper? 60. "Bus Stop" playwright 61. Roller coaster feature 62. Cubic meter 63. Use a spyglass 64. Hard to hold on to 65. Cash in much of the Continent

Down 1. First Lady after Bess 2. Loud, like a crowd 3. Brit's weight 4. Flesh and blood 5. Troubador's verse form 6. Cleo or Frankie of song 7. Author Sarah __ Jewett 8. Ltd., across the Channel 9. Made tougher 10. Genius spiffer-upper? 11. Take home 12. Long march 13. Salty seven 18. Web page visits 23. Stutz Bearcat contemporary 25. Excavation spiffer-upper? 26. Mantle's number 28. Collected clippings 29. March Madness org. 30. Kuwaiti bigwig 31. Editor's excision 32. Pupil's place 33. Music to slam-dance to 34. Green Gables girl 35. Hell of a place? 38. Boat hanger-on 42. Beat to death, so to speak 44. Dawn goddess 45. Just __ (not much) 47. Too sentimental 48. Fertilizer ingredient 49. In __ (unborn) 50. Social customs 51. Tamer's handful 52. Top-flight 53. Theater area 54. Fast Eddie's game 58. Beluga delicacy 59. Erwin of early TV

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