Shankar who is a 31A31ACertain stringed instrumentalists[---------]
15A
Hebrew's first letter
16A
Natural 20, as in D&D
17A
Generally
19A
Self-talk question?
20A
Positive response to 19A19ASelf-talk question?[----]
21A
"Pieces of Me" artist Simpson
23A
Exposed?
28A
John Huntsman Jr. or Mitt Romney
29A
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" author Edward
30A
ESPN show with "Five Good Minutes"
31A
Certain stringed instrumentalists
35A
"Aha!"
38A
What you might do vis-à-vis leaves
39A
Pete Souza and Ansel Adams
41A
Half line
43A
Some first year grad students
44A
Parenthetical, possibly
46A
Flesh
51A
Excel extensions
52A
Founder Bill of a plane company
53A
Realtree, for one
54A
Busker, maybe
60A
Sign
61A
Self-described "legend" of chess Short
62A
Working a program, perhaps
63A
Breach contents
64A
Bask location?
65A
What the last words of 17A17AGenerally[----------], 23A23AExposed?[---------------], 46A46AFlesh[---------------], 54A54ABusker, maybe[----------] may reference
Down
1D
Spherical body
2D
Nonprofessional
3D
Director DuVernay of "Selma" and "13th"
4D
Some coat
5D
~18,000 people live in this country, some 340 islands in Oceania
6D
Example media bias
7D
Love story involving Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson?
8D
Johnson, Stockton, and Robertson are ahead of Chris Paul in this stat
9D
Part of a whole muffin?
10D
Mayor of McDonald's
11D
Hygeine company
12D
Stroke (Sp.) or with la, a mostly sub-2D animated comic series
13D
Author William of Shrek! (1990)
18D
Mousetrap company
22D
Fighter Zelda?
23D
16 tablespoons
24D
Place to vent?
25D
Coldest forest biomes
26D
Cereal species
27D
With up, a sudden outbreak
31D
Sailor's lure to shipwreck
32D
"Invisible Cities" author Calvino
33D
2006 Winter Olympics host
34D
Top trump suit
36D
Inside Out roles
37D
Tongue in a joint
40D
Web portal launched alongside Windows 95
42D
Confirm with uncertainty?
44D
8th month in Iran
45D
With acid, a food preservative first derived from the rowan tree
46D
Windows alternative
47D
Some Dutch cheese
48D
Don Draper and others
49D
Elsie the Cow's husband
50D
Posturepedic mattress company
55D
NCAA rule enabling payment of players
56D
Part of you that experiences the outside world
57D
Actress de Armas from "No Time to Die" and "Knives Out"