Theme: Field Sobriety Test - "Don't move your head and follow the tip of my pen with just your eyes"
20A. "Bro, I thought you were gonna help": "LEFT ME HANGIN"
49A. Follow the ethical path: DO WHAT'S RIGHT
10D. Moving around: UP AND ABOUT
30D. "You're talking too loud": "TONE IT DOWN"
Argyle here. The theme entries are placed in their appropriate places but still rather bland Tuesday.
Across:
1. Home for Pogo: SWAMP
6. Affirmative answer: YES
9. Silences, as a TV: MUTES
14. Artist's prop: EASEL
15. Pie __ mode: À LA
16. Wagnerian work: OPERA
17. "Farewell, chérie": "ADIEU"
18. CBS forensic drama: CSI. (Crime Scene Investigation)
19. Antianxiety drug: XANAX
23. Many a GI: PVT
24. Jerry Garcia's band, familiarly: THE DEAD
28. Socializing with the queen, maybe: AT TEA
31. Avril Lavigne's "Sk8er __": BOI
32. Bullets and such: AMMO
33. Lots and lots: A GOOD DEAL
35. Accessories for the highchair set: BIBS
36. Decide in advance: PLAN
37. Gonzalez boy in 2000 headlines: ELIAN. Where is he now?
39. Look at lasciviously: OGLE
40. Hourly charge: RATE
41. "I expected as much": "IT FIGURES"
43. "... __ saw Elba": ERE I. “Aibohphobia” : a fear of palindromes.
44. Owns: HAS
45. More like a button?: CUTER. Clue doesn't sit quite right for me. Close enough.
46. Is really boiling: SEETHES
48. Reggae kin: SKA
55. Set to simmer, as a burner: ON LOW. Won't get 46-Across that way.
58. Spanish eye: OJO
59. Sag: DROOP
60. Southern inflection: DRAWL
61. Looking sickly: WAN
62. Novelist Zola: EMILE. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ~ Emile Zola
63. Suddenly occurs to, with "on": DAWNS
64. Computer program suffix: .EXE
65. Went out with: DATED
Down:
1. Close securely: SEAL
2. Stroll in the shallows: WADE
3. "Yeah, sure!": "AS IF!"
4. Track event: MEET
5. Made fluffy, as pillows: PLUMPED
6. Millionaire's boat: YACHT
7. "Frozen" princess: ELSA
8. Minnesota college named for Norway's patron: SAINT OLAF
9. Spunk: MOXIE. The soda came first, before the "spunk" meaning. Moxie History
11. Morning break hour: TEN
12. Historical period: ERA
13. Classic doo-wop horn: SAX. It takes me back to slow dancing in the gymnasium.
21. Slip past: EVADE
22. Phone button letters next to a 4: GHI
25. Political fugitive: ÉMIGRÉ
26. One strolling: AMBLER. Back in the gym.
27. Medicine measures: DOSES
28. Harshly bright: AGLARE
29. Perfectly: TO A TEE
31. Puts the worm on: BAITS
33. __-ski: APRÈS
34. Sewing machine inventor: ELIAS HOWE
38. Shaving mishaps: NICKS
42. Covered, as in a man-to-man defense: GUARDED
44. Axe: HEW
47. Coyote cries: HOWLS
48. Rosetta __: STONE
50. "Stronger than dirt!" cleanser: AJAX
51. "Joy of Cooking" writer Rombauer: IRMA
52. __ alone: have no help: GO IT
53. Putting target: HOLE
54. Adorned with Angel Soft, say: TP'ed. Strewn with toilet paper.
55. Like every other number: ODD
56. Food service trade org.: NRA. (National Restaurant Association)
57. Attorney's field: LAW
Argyle
