1: Lightens, as a burden

6: Burn soother

10: Congressional group

14: Swell up

15: Carnation's 'contented' creatures

16: 'If I Were a ___ Man'

17: Model wood

18: Lowest female voice

20: Avoid

22: Tea party screwball

23: 'I've ___ it up to here!'

24: Wager

25: Avg.

26: Ally

31: Seed coverings

32: Palindromic preposition

33: Sow's sustenance

37: Lion's pride

38: Perry Mason's workload

40: Theater section

41: Did in, old-style

42: Unwrought iron

43: Desert refuges

44: Conflicting flavors

47: Ancient mariner

50: November winners

51: St. Louis gridder

52: Medicinal plant

54: Parting word, in Tokyo

59: Lice and the like

61: More wise

62: Atlantic food fish

63: Either of the racing Earnhardts

64: Bumbling

65: Deep desires

66: They get into sushi

67: Impudent

1: Reduces in intensity

2: Jai ___

3: Listened to the bears

4: Life of Riley

5: Hidden drug supplies

6: Give in

7: Roller coaster feature

8: Have stuff

9: Art connoisseurs (var.)

10: Spoiled child

11: Jaunty rhythms

12: Group of eight

13: Group of pitches

19: Miles per hour, e.g.

21: Small amount

24: Like a dangerous wire

26: Pic takers

27: Spoken

28: Span's inches

29: Took to the air

30: Put a counter to zero

33: Deli side

34: Give the slip to

35: Type of arch

36: Pain in the neck

38: Occur together

39: They may be liberal

43: One way to learn by

44: Preconception

45: Removes, as a record

46: Piano man Charles

47: Fuddled

48: Quickly

49: Later showing

53: Mortarboards

54: Unload, as stock

55: Grandmother, affectionately

56: Reason and Enlightenment

57: Sales staff members

58: Pretentious

60: Menlo Park monogram