Swift satire about eating poor children which, these days, probably would be taken seriously
39A
Tennis call
40A
Half of the "Hungry Like the Wolf" band?
41A
MIddle Madrigal sister in "Encanto"
42A
"I've seen some hot hot places come down in smoke and ___" (Joni Mitchell, "Help Me")
43A
Japanese noodles
44A
Like rural cell reception and most teenaged boys' beards
45A
Musical talent, colloquially
47A
Markers often knocked into by would-be touchdown scorers (they sound like illegal moves after tackles)
49A
Dark-sounding Big Pharma firm
51A
Clattering office equipment in the pre-computer age
55A
Spanish region whose name derives from the Ummayad's conquerors' name for Iberia
58A
Aligned
59A
They drive thespians (in more ways than one)
60A
Company that gained prominence under Bernard Lacoste
61A
Words before "sow" in a proverb
62A
Become an accessory
63A
"Goodnight, ___ human" (Sheldon Cooper as The Hulk in Big Bang Theory)
Down
1D
Yale product
2D
Gardner who created Perry Mason
3D
Rap's Rocky
4D
M.A. seeker, for one
5D
They might hang near Picassos in show of Spanish modern art
6D
"I'm concerned about my friend, who seems addicted to drinking brake fluid ... but he said 'Don't worry, ________.'"
7D
Show approval
8D
Tech that largely replaced command-line interfaces
9D
Soccer legend's first name, which is one letter short of a famous inventor's last name
10D
Like Emily Dickinson's "I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain" (by Andrew Bird and Phoebe Bridgers) or her "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" (by Natalie Merchant)
11D
Greeting accompanying a tip of one's fedora, perhaps
12D
Raison d'____
15D
Fodor's competitor
17D
Linger cozily in bed after waking up, in a rhyming Scottish term
20D
Compensate
23D
Long (for)
25D
La ___ (where many Verdi operas premiered)
26D
Designates
27D
Paul McCartney's "_____" or Phil Collins's "____ in Paradise"
29D
Mil. address
31D
Audacious
32D
Ease
34D
"Sweeney Todd" accessory
37D
South of France
38D
Exceed
44D
PAC beneficiary
46D
"Despite all my rage ... rat in ___" (Smashing Pumpkins, "Bullet with Butterfly Wings")
48D
Maximally minimal
49D
Tortilla dough
50D
Some AMA members
52D
Asian citrus fruit (in Japan I tasted sake flavored with this, and it was delicious!)
53D
Metaphorical cog
54D
Swirl
56D
Mia portrayer in "Pulp Fiction"
57D
Cry, maybe because of what some dirty ___ did
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A century of themelesses! (Hopefully it doesn’t feel like it takes that long to solve them ….) The seeds for this one were 6 Down (a joke I heard an Australian comedian tell last year) and 17 Down (I don’t remember where I came across the term, but I love it!).
Getting Stumper-esque with the cryptic clues on TEAL and ENO, I see (although those wouldn’t fly as clues in an actual cryptic, but then again, many of the Stumper’s “cryptic” clues don’t follow the rules entirely either).