| Ones doing some heavy lifting before retirement? |
| Floored |
| Dosed oneself |
| Good field for a smooth talker |
| Like the cleanup crew at closing time, typically |
| Mobile home: Abbr. |
| Gaston who wrote "The Phantom of the Opera" |
| "Succession" airer |
| Brief British P.M. ___ Truss |
| Doc to consult when confused |
| Restaurant chain named after its founders, the Raffel brothers |
| Morning glory goddess |
| "She Bee Stingin'" athlete |
| Scholar's mug collection? |
| It might be a lot |
| Donna ___, "The Goldfinch" author |
| Retail apparel giant |
| Campus in Troy, N.Y. |
| "Famous" cookie guy |
| Choose |
| H.S. course taken for College-Kredit |
| Unrestricted audition |
| Begat |
| Language in which the first five numbers are nung, song, sam, si, ha |
| 27- or 55-Down backward |
| [It's cold in here!] |
| Low in the pasture |
| Key part of a cephalopod's defense mechanism |
| MX-5 roadsters, e.g. |
| Interstice |
| 15th-century headgear for a knight |
| Panama's Gulf of San ___ |
| 1974 John Wayne movie |
| N.B.A. team with a 1980s "Showtime" era |
| Spurred |
| Common aloe descriptor |
| Convertible |
| Answer to the riddle "I have one bow but no arrows. What am I?" |
| Gentlemen of Verona, in England |
| Baby eels |
| "Just ___ with it" |
| Sorority chaperone |
| "Is it just ___ is it hot in here?" |
| New York county that's home to Binghamton |
| Spinning speed: Abbr. |
| Covert missions ... or what's covert in eight of this puzzle's answers |
| Candy dispensed with a "nod" of the head |
| Captcha test affirmation |
| "___ ready as I'll ever be" |
| Navigates a slippery slope, in a way |
| Words repeated in the title of a Doris Day hit |
| Document that may contain a microchip number and a veterinarian's signature |
| Angle symbol, in trigonometry |
| ___ Schwarz |
| One favoring imitation over innovation |
| China and environs |
| Pre-euro currency of Finland |
| Modern love |
| Put (down) |
| Signs of past healing |
| Lamar who played for the 59-Across |
| Pans that sound like strolls |
| Sugar apple, by another name |
| What a cryptid might be |
| Grade just above average |
| Mimic |
| X and Y |
| Groans equivalent to eye rolls |
| Run (to) |
| Tennis champion Swiatek |
| Vim |