My wife and I are in Ireland right now, starting off the New Year with family. I just managed to slip away to solve the puzzle, and write up this abbreviated post. I will get to the full post just as soon as I can.
1 Terms of address : MA’AMS
6 Hit sounds : WHAPS
11 Sister from another mister : GAL PAL
12 More on the up and up? : HIGHER
14 Offer that can’t be refused, in business : HOSTILE TAKEOVER
17 Key in a corner : ESC
18 Tipped off : ALERTED
19 Market event, in brief : IPO
20 Word of woe : ALAS
22 Design deets : SPECS
23 Show off one’s physique, in a way : FLEX
24 Day in movies : DORIS
26 ___-di-dah : LAH
27 Ride in space : SALLY
28 “Copy” machines? : WALKIE-TALKIES
31 Designer Michael : KORS
32 Tie up : MOOR
33 Sign of enforced boundaries : NO TRESPASSING
38 Suit : BEFIT
39 Japanese tech giant : NEC
40 Fearlessness : HEART
42 Video game turn : LIFE
43 Go ___ : VIRAL
45 Eject : SPEW
46 D.O.J. V.I.P.s : AGS
47 Husky apparatus : DOGSLED
49 “Get it?” : SEE?
50 Dated TV star? : THE BACHELORETTE
53 Patronize, as a resort : STAY AT
54 Hardens : INURES
55 Ones unlikely to order the house wine, say : SNOBS
56 Go-getter : TIGER
Down
1 What one might use to lash out? : MASCARA
2 Genre prefix : ALT
3 Capital on the island of Upolu : APIA
4 Places with multiple outlets : MALLS
5 Tired excuses? : SLEEPLESS NIGHTS
6 Word when you can’t find the word : WHATCHAMACALLIT
7 Engages in some outdoor recreation : HIKES
8 Like fine wine, but not fine olive oil : AGED
9 Soup sometimes served with hanh dam : PHO
10 Birthplace of flamenco : SEVILLE
11 “Easy!” : GO SLOW!
13 Drives away : REPELS
14 Part of a river that ironically doesn’t contain the mouth : HEAD
15 Foot the bill : TREAT
16 Women’s surfwear brand : ROXY
21 Fine neckwear : SILK TIE
23 Fabled tooth-takers : FAIRIES
25 Clothing portmanteau : SKORT
27 Tiny bit : SKOSH
29 Face reddener : IRE
30 ___ Banos, Calif. : LOS
33 They come straight from the horse’s mouth : NEIGHS
34 Balances : OFFSETS
35 Intrinsically : PER SE
36 Internet company whose logo is a cat wearing earphones : NAPSTER
37 Says “Hey” to, say : GREETS
38 Unpleasant sound from a tuba : BLAT!
41 Cutesy to a fault : TWEE
43 Words to remember, for short : VOCAB
44 Téa of “Madam Secretary” : LEONI
47 Harry Belafonte catchword : DAY-O
48 Generic, e.g. : DRUG
51 Outlaw : BAN
52 Poetic palindrome : ERE
