DAILY THEME ACROSS 1 Singer with the 1977 hit "Lido Shuffle"
7 Things with roots
13 House of Tybalt and Juliet
15 "Under the Lilacs" writer, 1878
16 Eastern border of Manhattan's Tompkins Square Park
17 Staple of Caribbean music
18 Car mentioned in "Hotel California," informally
20 Eponymous bacteriologist Julius
21 Nickname for Francisco
22 The so-called "sunny side"
24 Cold-shoulder
25 Many a circus feat
27 7-Eleven, e.g.
29 Steven Van Zandt's role on "The Sopranos," informally
30 Constantly adjusting one's gla**es, e.g.
32 Back on track?
34 Who said "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact"
38 Wing man?
39 1977 reggae cla**ic
40 So-so
41 Concert stage effect
42 Polemologists study them
44 Wiriness
48 Same-s** household?
50 "I deny all that!"
52 Artist Thomas ____, founder of the Hudson River School
53 Bowls are seen in them
55 Harebrained
57 Creative cla**room
59 Put one's foot down, in a way
60 "Right-o"
61 Rock candy, essentially
62 Give one's blessing
63 Lounging spot DOWN 1 Little rascals
2 But
3 Illuminating comment
4 Something a politician proposes that takes heat?
5 Archivist's supply
6 Slummy
7 Who sings "As Time Goes By" in "Casablanca"
8 Thunderous noise
9 End of many a farm name
10 Execrable
11 2000s retro Chrysler
12 Kind of steel
14 Building bar with one flange
19 Sign at a concession stand
23 Katharine ______, onetime publisher of the Washington Post
26 So far, informally
28 Hits on the side ... or cuts from the back
31 Agemate
33 Andrew Jackson nickname
34 Jaywalkers, e.g.
35 Payments to speakers, say
36 With beauty and cla**
37 Common character in Dungeons & Dragons
43 Low cla**
45 Casual response to "Thanks"
46 Title six-year-old of literature
47 Made damp
49 Where to watch the Beeb
51 Cousin of "Skoal!"
54 "The 120 Days of Sodom" author
56 Colombian crop
58 Team on which Larry Bird played, on scoreboards