DAILY THEME ACROSS 1 To wit
7 Weakness
13 One traveling in a basket
14 Place where people are rushing
15 Lively
16 Deadlock
17 Lively
18 White House pets for Reagan and both Bushes
20 Le Duc ___, decliner of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize
21 "Huh! No kidding!"
22 Black ___
25 End of some business names
27 Actress Benaderet
29 Prophet who anointed Saul
32 "Spit it out!"
35 _____ fries
36 Secret's source ... that can be found four times in this puzzle
39 Up
40 Bowled over
41 One whose business has a lot of overhead?
43 Dec. 31
44 It keeps a team together
48 Ice cream purchase
49 "The Name of the Rose" author
51 Reject
52 Greek
57 Percolate
58 Voting requirement in some states
60 "Let's go someplace private"
62 Best Picture subject nine inches shorter than the actor who portrayed him
63 Whisky first produced for King George VI's 1939 visit to Canada
64 Refines, in a way
65 Intensify DOWN 1 Plato's "tenth Muse"
2 Supervillain in a 2015 "Avengers" sequel
3 Rosemary, for one
4 That guy
5 Ancient symbols of sovereignty
6 Station
7 Forces
8 Common spot for a sunburn
9 Constant
10 Subject of an 1820 compromise
11 "___ alive!"
12 Word of support
13 Exceeds 21, in a way
14 Dandy
19 Aeschylus tragedy
23 Sports star with a signed jersey in the Vatican
24 Foxy
26 Not tip
27 Club alternative
28 "____ & Duke at the Côte D'Azur" (1966 jazz album)
30 1 chain x 1 furlong
31 Obfuscate
33 Rock follower?
34 Fortune 500 company founded in 1995
36 Name of a family with a combined 7,228 hits
37 One may be exploited
38 Suffix with real
39 "The ___ of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice": M.L.K.
42 All that is left?
45 Feature of many a minion in "Despicable Me"
46 Actor Culkin of "Igby Goes Down"
47 Boot
50 Give up
53 Bibliography abbr.
54 Shabby
55 Cool people
56 Ice cream purchase
57 Ice cream ___
58 Scoreboard figure: Abbr.
59 Start to hesitate?
61 Afternoon hour in Italy