SPRING'S IN THE AIR

ACROSS

1. College cadet program

5. Comedian Schumer

8. Not square

11. October birthstone

12. Dueling weapon

13. FlambÈ

15. Capital of Azerbaijan

16. Rugged rock

17. Actress Vergara

18. *What many chicks are doing in spring

20. "Me and Bobby McGee" singer-songwriter

21. *What the weather does in spring across the U.S.

22. Make a seam

23. Old name for 5-iron in golf

26. Facing

30. 20s dispenser

31. Bodily fluids

34. Steak choice

35. Dungeness and snow, e.g.

37. "Chapter" in history

38. African antelope

39. Republic of Ireland

40. Made a feline sound

42. 34th U.S. President

43. Knock-at-the-door onomatopoeia

45. ____ the Great, king of Persia

47. Give it a go

48. Fraternity K

50. Dr Pepper, e.g.

52. *The Beach Boys: "Spring ____, good vibration"

55. Member of Nahuatl people

56. #23 Across, e.g.

57. Articulated

59. Salary increase

60. Umbilical connection

61. Volcano in Sicily

62. Robinson or Doubtfire

63. Bajillion years

64. One-horse carriage

DOWN

1. What highwaymen do

2. Moonfish

3. Bangladeshi currency

4. Type of purse

5. *Simon & Garfunkel: "____, come she will"

6. Wealth

7. Safecracker

8. High quality sound reproduction, for short

9. *Purple flower that starts blooming in spring

10. Fairytale insomnia cause

12. Like repeating tunnel sound

13. Off kilter

14. *"Spring ____, fall back"

19. Spring mattress filler

22. Acronym in a bottle

23. Ceremonial staff bearer

24. Skylit lobbies

25. "Designing Women" star Jean ____

26. *Become soft, as in ground

27. Radices, sing.

28. "Way 2 Sexy" rapper

29. "Battle of the ____" movie

32. Swimming competition, e.g.

33. Not amateur

36. *The ____: "Little darlin', it's been a long, cold, lonely winter"

38. Highly skilled

40. *Official start of spring

41. Make bigger

44. Vanish without this?

46. Elevates

48. Dry plateau in South Africa

49. Oak nut

50. Same as tsar

51. "The Dock of the Bay" singer

52. Joe Biden, once

53. Solemn promise

54. Pinta and Santa Maria companion

55. Vegas bandit's body part

58. *It gets longer