1: Pointed remarks

6: Word heard on December 31

10: Course of action

14: Old-womanish

15: Soft cheese

16: Non-clashing color

17: Ziegfeld offering

18: Bop on the head

19: 'Leading With My ___' (Leno book)

20: Darling

22: Quarter fraction

23: Grass in a loft

24: Lowers in esteem

26: Axis foes

30: Healthy lunch choice

32: Shows partiality

33: Verbal zinger

34: Flavored cucumbers

38: After-dinner candy

39: Many a time

40: Stead

41: Out of whack

43: Spider in the kitchen

44: Mix it up

45: Boxers' wraps

47: Parrot perches

48: Lathe, e.g.

51: Male youth

52: Tropical root

53: Remove from the face of the earth

60: Help for the hapless

61: Courts

62: Hopeless soul

63: Slippery sheet

64: Trellis piece

65: Take out or in

66: Wade across

67: Boulevard liners

68: Loses weight (with 'down')

1: Cell features

2: Freshly

3: ___ Gauche

4: Down in the dumps

5: Boils

6: Monastic building

7: Ammonia compound

8: False witness

9: Kind of records or bridge

10: Minor offense

11: Has lumbago

12: Threefold

13: Forest forays

21: Suffers from

25: Good, ironically, in slang

26: ___ mater

27: Island souvenirs

28: Long and lean

29: Butted in

30: Lobby furniture

31: FYI cousin

33: Gloomy Gus

35: Tells a whopper

36: Post-Mardi Gras period

37: Froth

42: Deep distress

44: Places to buy frutas y legumbres

46: Use the Web

47: Wharf pest

48: Body of military officers

49: Hunt holler

50: Knight dress?

51: Neat freak's records

54: Cottonseed source

55: Rich soil

56: Drummer's rhythm

57: Knock preceder

58: Overflow

59: Slips