1: Proof of pmt.

5: Like a dangerous wire

9: Miffed, with 'off'

13: Starring vehicle for Sigourney Weaver

15: Gives the heave-ho

16: Friend

17: Virile

18: Bask in a bath

19: Zippo

20: A dynamic speaker, e.g.

23: Four-poster, e.g.

24: Coat of many colors?

25: Hearsay

27: 'Daphne' division

30: Abbott, to Costello

32: One-third of a hat trick

33: Cajun cooking thickener

35: / or \

38: Fabric shop purchase

39: Less doubtful

41: Short newspaper piece

42: Was a snoop

44: Spork part

45: Sanitizer's target

46: Iron production?

48: Black-and-white zoo attraction

50: Checked out

51: Where to find a browser

52: Siamese or Persian

53: Hazarding a guess: sidewalk engineer?

60: Egg, classically

62: Like Richard and Yorick?

63: Generous sort

64: Slinky, essentially

65: Hanks and Cruise

66: Provide with a trait

67: Did in, old-style

68: Leave in, to an editor

69: Fit for a King?

1: St. Louis gridders

2: Abrupt bit of thunder

3: State tree of Maine

4: Drop a dime on

5: Pesto herb

6: Neural fiber

7: Part of ROM

8: Glacial ridges

9: Summer coat?

10: Added details

11: Adjective for some statesmen

12: Pair

14: Fishline material

21: Oktoberfest servings

22: Road grooves

26: Traduce

27: Glide high

28: Lampoon

29: Pastors' assistants

30: First two-time, and first female, Nobelist

31: Whom the yoke's on?

32: Shortchange

34: Inning enders

36: Antitoxins

37: 'I wonder...'

40: Run off

43: Like one end of a pool

47: Goes with the flow

49: Place to call home

50: Carp

51: Least satisfactory

52: Carnation's 'contented' creatures

54: Hit the horn

55: Where the heart is, proverbially

56: Cymbal relative

57: Prefix with European

58: Acidic

59: Deuce topper

61: Kitten's cry