DAILY THEME ACROSS 1 Growing group
12 Extremely, in modern lingo
15 Hollywood star whose grandfather was the Cuban patriot José Martí
16 Home of the city and county of Waterford: Abbr.
17 1980s electronic innovation from Detroit
18 Sprint Cup Series sponsor
19 Steamed
20 Many an attendance fig.
21 Basketball Hall-of-Famer Dan
23 Opera genre for "Tosca" and "Pagliacci"
25 Green curtains?
27 Cartoon crony of Fancy-Fancy and Choo-Choo
29 Mine entrance
30 Hooked projection on a bird feather
34 Drizzling clouds
36 New York city near the Pennsylvania border
37 ___ Season Tip-Off (annual hoops event)
39 "Hurray!"
40 Thwart
42 Like seven of the 12 presidents between 1869 and 1923
44 Part of E.M.S.: Abbr.
45 Conditional construct in computer programming
47 Clark Gable film that was a remake of his "Red Dust"
49 Personal info such as education and work history
54 Like Homer Simpson or Herman Munster
55 Big D campus
57 Novarro who played Ben-Hur
58 E.M.S. offering
59 Hydrophilic
62 Prefix with -lithic
63 Ones using slides
64 Doubly hyphenated ID
65 Half-volley in tennis, e.g. DOWN 1 When "Double, double toil and trouble" is chanted in "Macbeth"
2 Largest employer in the Midwest's Quad Cities, for short
3 NATO alphabet letter
4 Actress Christine
5 Lily Tomlin character with a headset
6 Show sign
7 Burst, in a way
8 Birds whose eggs are incubated by males
9 AriZona competitor
10 Half of hex-
11 Prefix with linguistics
12 Pride of Moscow?
13 One making People look good?
14 Ozone layer issue
22 Seal of office for some pharaohs
24 Bit of footwear, for short
26 Price abbr.
28 Awards that have had a Healthcare category since 2009
30 Unconventional sorts
31 Tender towards one's exes?
32 Failed to honor
33 Defendant's complaint
35 Good deal
38 Area with lawns and picket fences, informally
41 Follower of 50-Down
43 Super Bowl whose pregame show honored the Apollo astronauts
46 Unappreciated by
48 Series often seen with S's on the ends
50 '60s president
51 Some drivers with "slow-moving vehicle" reflectors
52 Sidekick of film and TV
53 Common Allen wrench?
56 Ice Bucket Challenge, e.g.
60 N.L. West team, on scoreboards
61 Start of many California place names