1 Given benediction, the old-fashioned way

2 Run out, as a subscription

3 ___ Wednesday

4 Evades

5 Shakespeare's "The Winter's ___"

6 Hoity-toity type

7 Self-centered sort

8 Be in a sorry state?

9 Biblical verb ending

10 Like volleyball that's played jointly by men and women

11 Not go straight

12 "Cat on ___ Tin Roof"

14 Passenger-screening org.

15 Letters on a schedule meaning "We'll let you know"

16 Went on dates with

21 What the Titanic did, famously

24 Father: Fr.

25 See 15-Across

27 Of similar character

28 Advance, as money

29 Toy block brand

30 Cold fall

31 Turkish pooh-bahs

32 Open's opposite

33 Abandoned European capital

34 Not quite closed

36 Soldier who's gone missing

40 Jump

42 Allegiance

45 Cause to be cherished

47 Surgical knife

49 Exemplify humanity, say

51 Contest award

52 Subject of a long sentence?

53 Letters before gees

54 Golf peg

55 Palindromic Nabokov title

56 Big party

57 "___ and the King of Siam"

59 Big stinger

60 Nine-digit fig. on a Social Security card

63 Comparative suffix