1. Fashion designer Schiaparelli → ELSA
5. Boomer playing in a band → BASSDRUM
13. Things that may be connected → DOTS
14. 2023 musical with a Tony for Best Choreography → ILLINOISE
15. Some arthritis → GOUT
16. Climbed without ropes → FREESOLOED
17. Fire in one's belly → AMBITION
19. Old money, for short? → IRA
20. Jewish honorific → REB
21. They work around the clock → HANDS
23. Big Apple athlete → KNICK
27. Home ___ → DEPOT
29. Summer Olympics event → EPEE
31. Gram alternative → NAN
32. Trusted one, typically → ELDER
33. Mr. Right, e.g. → IDEALMATE
35. Silver of the Silver Bulletin → NATE
36. Deduce → INFER
37. L.G.B.T.Q.+ rights activist Windsor → EDIE
38. Suddenly kicks the bucket → DROPSDEAD
40. Go viral → TREND
41. "Opportunity," per Henry Wadsworth Longfellow → AGE
42. Introductory dissection subject → WORM
43. Plane on a diamond → FACET
44. ___ Hadley, "Clever Girl" novelist → TESSA
46. Certain put-back shot → TIPIN
48. Golden ratio symbol → PHI
50. Rx dosages → MGS
52. Extend → LENGTHEN
54. Their talent may not be as important as their last names → NEPOBABIES
58. Awed reactions → OOHS
59. One who enjoys the high C's? → OPERAGOER
60. Slow ___ (response from the unamused) → CLAP
61. Disparities studied by economists → WAGEGAPS
62. High-fat diet, informally → KETO