1: Vexes

5: Pay the ___ (bear the consequences)

10: You can beat it

14: Humble

15: Saw

16: Artifice

17: Plate of glass

18: Chief plotter

20: Sow's sustenance

21: She's a deer

22: Obstruct

23: Competes in a sulky race

25: 'Golly!'

26: Ape

29: Adds seasonal glitter to

33: Represent onstage

34: Bunch of baby birds

36: Muhammad Ali a.k.a. 'The Louisville ___'

37: St. Louis gridders

38: Admire oneself

39: Bishop Desmond

40: 28,800 seconds before midnight

41: June celebrants

42: Allied

43: Enclosures cleaned by Hercules

45: Circus performers

46: Nonsense

47: Type of guitar

49: Make a valiant effort

52: Helpful hint

53: Riffraff

57: Rainbowlike

59: Trout tempter

60: Vampire's tooth

61: 'Last ___ in Paris'

62: Geishas' sashes

63: Youngster

64: Bend a bit

65: Pt. of MIT

1: Mischief-makers

2: Down-to-earth

3: Numbers game

4: ''Show me'' types

5: Negate a conviction

6: Preceder of box or light, in slang

7: Glass squares

8: Chicken-to-be

9: Creed

10: They hang around the house

11: Obnoxious

12: Secondhand

13: Marginally sufficient

19: Correct copy

24: Wharf pest

26: Feudal laborers

27: Unsuitable

28: '___ Mia!'

29: Corn-growing regions

30: Duck

31: Carafe quantity

32: Potatoes

34: Lingerie buys

35: Pinot Noir or Merlot

38: Advance trials

39: Schedule opening

41: Michael Jackson performed in one

42: In mourning

44: London or Brooklyn, e.g.

45: Highest point

47: Minutes taker, perhaps

48: Jargon

49: Use a sieve

50: Waiter's tote

51: Curling surface

54: Take to a higher power

55: Kind of acid

56: Dovetail

58: Siamese or Persian