1. Banquet
6. Anagram of "Bards"
11. Audio communications
12. Get worse
15. Satirical mimicry
16. Dinnertime
17. Suffer
18. Wide part of a river
20. Zero
21. Narrow opening
23. Probabilities
24. Lazily
25. Goulash
26. Head honcho
27. Small island
28. Tropical American wildcat
29. Entire
30. Courted
31. Objector
34. Confuse
36. Louse-to-be
37. Unrestrained revelry
41. Shopping center
42. Prima donna problems
43. Minute opening
44. Achy
45. Cut down
46. Black, in poetry
47. Mineral rock
48. Make downhearted
51. Except
52. Rubdowns
54. Goddess of wisdom
56. Stretchable
57. Sentry
58. It makes dough rise
59. Gulf
2. Not later
3. Big fuss
4. On the left or right
5. Playthings
6. Fears
7. Backsides
8. Friend
9. Louisville Slugger
10. Rotating shaft
13. Grinned
14. Evasive
16. Muckrakers
19. Equipment
22. Nonsense
24. Variant of an element
26. Despicable
27. Charged particle
30. Dampens
32. Sick
33. Thermionic tube
34. Ethically indifferent
38. Thieves
39. Tracts of land
40. Busybody
42. Anticipate
44. A few
45. Shield
48. Facts
49. Epic
50. Counterfoil
53. South southeast
55. Fodder