1: Cause of a bad air day

5: Spill the beans

9: Rice drink

13: Bathe

14: Lassoer's cord

15: Reddish orange dye

16: Still the same

18: 'Come on in'

19: Inch fraction

20: Robert of ''Airplane!''

21: Propaganda target

22: Rotini and ziti

24: Far from ruddy

25: Positron, e.g.

31: Coagulate

34: Sully

35: Freedom, briefly

36: Ditties

37: Faux follower

38: Follower of Mary

39: Actress Ryan

40: Small piano

43: Mischief-makers

44: Party at the Bates Motel?

47: Chopped chow

48: Any one of the X-Men

52: '___ the Ides of March'

55: Position

57: Long-nosed fish

58: Paycheck booster

59: Use a certain office machine

61: Dunderheads

62: 'Hey, that hurts!'

63: Hematite and galena

64: Turns red, perhaps

65: Like a moonless night

66: ___ fiber (flax, hemp, ramie, or jute)

1: Stop hitting?

2: Excessive enthusiasm

3: Ellipsoids

4: Hairdo helper

5: Confronts

6: Colorful parrot

7: Fossey's focus

8: Four-poster, e.g.

9: Dojo VIP

10: 'Them' insects

11: Joint with a cap

12: Dumbo's 'wings'

15: Subject of many a toast

17: Comparison word

21: 'The Sabbath' painter Chagall

23: Skin designs, for short

24: Distance equivalent to 3.26 light-years

26: Full of mischief

27: It could be a grand

28: Mum one

29: Like a wet noodle

30: Reduces in intensity

31: Something to make at night and break in the morning

32: Tells a whopper

33: Bacchanalian blast

38: Spirited air

40: Apportionments

41: Sit before a lens

42: 1980 Oscar winner Hutton

45: Tries to tag, maybe

46: Mercury or Saturn

49: Greek gathering spot

50: Neck regions

51: Lovers' lane event

52: Pitt of 'Ocean's Twelve'

53: 'No problem!'

54: Pansophic

55: Cold-shoulder

56: Small indentation

59: Polynesian paste

60: Corn unit