1. Novelist Fannie who wrote "Imitation of Life" (1933) → HURST
2. Mexican street corn → ELOTE
3. Bamboozled → ATSEA
4. Site of a Counter-Reformation council, 1545-63 → TRENT
5. Speaker of the line "… your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs" → IAGO
6. Code-breaking grp. → NSA
7. It might bring a patient to surgery → GURNEY
8. "Step on it!" → PEDALTOTHEMETAL
9. Fruity beverages → ADES
10. Jobs for body shops → DENTS
11. Lose all patience with → FLIPOUTON
12. Leave one's winnings on the table for another bet → LETITRIDE
13. Tandoor, e.g. → OVEN
14. Elliptical areas → GYMS
23. "The Mysterious Lady" actress, 1928 → GARBO
25. Wire holders → PYLONS
26. Decorous → SEEMLY
27. Cells that can be vitrified and preserved for future use → OVA
29. "The Fall of the House of Usher" actress ___ Miller → TNIA
30. Very start, as of an idea → SEED
31. Kind of floor covering → MOSS
32. Settled down → ALIT
33. Bit of wanton gossip → IDLERUMOR
34. In an awesome way, slangily → LIKEABOSS
36. Professional negotiator → AGENT
38. Hagen of Broadway → UTA
43. Shakespearean duke → ORSINO
45. Arranges → SORTS
47. Phony one → POSER
48. Riches → LUCRE
49. Clear one's name, say? → ERASE
50. Seven-time Emmy winner Ed → ASNER
51. Jouissance → GLEE
52. World capital on both banks of the Daugava River → RIGA
54. Focus of the historians Tacitus and Suetonius → NERO
55. "___ Nagila" → HAVA
58. Pres. advisory grp. → NSC