1: Storm particles

5: Romance novelist Victoria

9: Persuade, with 'over'

13: Sole projection

15: Pretty good

16: Church recess

17: Ease off

18: Imitate Popeye

19: Mausoleum

20: Change

23: Chart shape

24: Winner at Caesar's palace?

25: Debut

28: Machine-gunned from above

31: Alarm target

33: Debussy's 'La ___'

34: Bounce like a kangaroo

35: Chicken-to-be

36: Prohibition-era fixtures

40: Chess piece

42: Beefeater, e.g.

43: Tenth wedding anniversary gift

44: Was a strikebreaker

47: Damsels

51: Brown pigment

52: Auction offering

53: ___ for tat

54: 'Boston Public' figure

59: Feel compassion

61: Indian housemaid

62: Proper niche

63: Word after union or comparison

64: Frost's frost

65: Glass squares

66: Butter units

67: Name on the marquee

68: GI's diner

1: Scoundrels

2: Even though

3: Less messy

4: Statistics

5: Just plain awful

6: Giraffe relative

7: Eyelid attachment

8: Copy editor's bane

9: Detention at British boarding schools

10: Divine dozen

11: Mao follower?

12: Lincoln loc.

14: President pro ___

21: Not young enough

22: Churchill's title

26: Tease mercilessly

27: Ending of many WWW addresses

29: Band blaster

30: Finder's charge

31: Constricting snake

32: Part of New York

34: Brooding type?

36: Album insert

37: 4-H member, usually

38: Sundial figure

39: Wrap up

40: Mag. submissions

41: Star pitcher

45: Weightlifter's pride

46: Scrooge's exclamation

47: Word with earth or lode

48: Flammable gas

49: Sisters' daughters

50: Kind of fracture

52: Andes pack animal

55: Galley propellers

56: Fail to include

57: Killer ___ (excellent computer program)

58: Mum one

59: Pharaohs' symbol of power

60: Dance part?