Holding Hands
20. Basic cocktail with Dewar's: SCOTCH AND SODA.
24. Live frugally: PINCH AND SCRAPE.
42. Political entities subject to Constitutional separation: CHURCH AND STATE.
48. Exhortation to come together ... and a hint to 20-, 24- and 42-Across: LET'S JOIN HANDS.
Each phrase holds (contains) the word hands.
Across:
1. Learn to fit in: ADAPT.
6. "Sí," on the Seine: OUI.
9. Nasser of Egypt: GAMAL.
14. Oscar winner Marisa: TOMEI. 1993 Oscars, Best Supporting Actress award, as Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny
15. "What was __ expect?": I TO.
16. Martini garnish: OLIVE.
17. "The Sixth Sense" writer/director M. Night __: SHYAMALAN. Perps made it easy. Otherwise, no clue.
19. "Mack the Knife" singer Bobby: DARIN.
22. Spanish "other": OTRA.
23. Acorn producer: OAK.
31. What truants "play": HOOKY. I thought of Senior Skip Day.
32. 2010 Apple release: IPAD.
33. Application file suffix: EXE. File suffix being file type. Short for executable.
35. Pests in a pantry: ANTS.
36. Like very serious errors: FATAL. "Error 1603: A fatal error occurred during installation" is a catchall when your application's executable doesn't install correctly.
38. Octopus octet: ARMS.
39. Muscle spasm: TIC.
40. Chore: TASK.
41. Most of Wile E. Coyote's gadgets, brand-wise: ACMES.
46. Forget-me-__: NOT.
Your birth flower if you were born in September.
The Alaska state flower.
Symbolism
47. Ohio border lake: ERIE.
54. Hawaiian hi: ALOHA.
55. Embarrasses deeply: MORTIFIES.
58. Bourbon Street cuisine: CAJUN.
59. Boston skyscraper, with "the": PRU.
60. Nick of "Cape Fear": NOLTE.
61. Shoelace problems: KNOTS.
62. Stockholm airline: SAS. SAS is an abbreviation of its former full name, Scandinavian Airlines System or legally Scandinavian Airlines System Denmark–Norway–Sweden. The main hub is in Copenhagen, while the company headquarters is near Stockholm. Wikipedia
63. Wear away: ERODE.
Down:
1. @ signs: ATs. I first learned this symbol meant each at. Internet Hall of Famer and inventor of email, RPI & MIT grad Ray Tomlinson, used the @ symbol to distinguish host name from user name so that messages could be sent from one host to another on ARPANET, the precursor to the internet.
2. "I am so stupid!": DOH. Popularized by Homer Simpson. You're telling me Grumpy and Doc weren't in Sleeping Beauty ? Oh, Snow White. DOH !
3. Actress Poehler and singer Grant: AMYS. Actress and comedian Amy Poehler and contemporary Christian singer Amy Grant.
4. Birds with eyelike spots on their tails: PEACOCKS.
5. Youngest-ever Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner Hutton: TIMOTHY. Won for "Ordinary People." I confused him with his father Jim.
6. Lube shop container: OIL CAN. Red Sox fans like Wilbur would remember "Oil Can" Boyd, a starting pitcher for the Beantown nine.
7. D-Day beach: UTAH.
8. Hebrides isle: IONA.
9. NASA's __ Space Flight Center: GODDARD.
10. Where Nome is: ALASKA.
11. Surrealist painter Joan: MIRO.
12. Gung-ho: AVID.
13. "Girls" creator Dunham: LENA.
18. Gillette blade: ATRA.
21. Diet-friendly: NO-CAL.
24. Cool, in '90s slang: PHAT. Not an acronym, but a deliberate misspelling of fat, in the sense of rich, abundant, or desirable. A couple of backronyms - phrases constructed after the fact - are Pretty Hot And Tempting and PHysically ATtractive. Paraphrased from Snopes.com
25. Greek column type: IONIC.
26. V-shaped cut: NOTCH.
27. Football's "Iron Mike": DITKA.
28. Place for a waxing: SPA.
29. Prefix with frost: PERMA.
30. Ron Darling or Tom Seaver: EX MET. Starting pitchers for the NY Mets.
34. To be, to Livy: ESSE. "Livy, Latin in full Titus Livius, (born 59/64 bc, Patavium, Venetia [now Padua, Italy]—died ad 17, Patavium), with Sallust and Tacitus, one of the three great Roman historians. His history of Rome became a classic in his own lifetime and exercised a profound influence on the style and philosophy of historical writing down to the 18th century." - Britannica.com
36. De __: actual: FACTO. "In fact or in practice; in actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status." Wiktionary.
37. Campfire remnant: ASH.
38. Represented: ACTED FOR.
40. Some "Iliad" warriors: TROJANS.
41. Utterly absurd: ASININE.
43. Left open, as a door: UNSHUT.
44. Indian political family: NEHRUS.
45. "Dagnabbit!": DRAT.
48. Absence: LACK.
49. Splashy style: ELAN.
50. Axis dictator who ordered the Pearl Harbor attack: TOJO.
51. Little rascals: IMPS.
52. "Julie & Julia" director Ephron: NORA.
53. Grain tower: SILO.
56. Flight board abbr.: ETD.
57. "Just like I said!": SEE.
