1: Abrupt bit of thunder

5: Typographic measure

9: Type of whale

14: Roll call response

15: Jack-in-the-pulpit

16: Island near Molokai

17: Ignore the alarm

19: Redacts

20: Kind of age

21: Mixes, as companies

22: Soup veggie

23: Hall near the quad

26: Short newspaper piece

27: Rifle and pistol

29: Killer ___ (excellent computer program)

32: Mirthful states

35: Fruit for flavoring gin

36: Excessively

37: Flower-shaped decoration

39: Plausible but fallacious argument

42: Rm. coolers

43: Sentry's shout

45: Nouveau ___

46: Fade away

47: Palliates

49: Some votes

51: Family follower?

52: Label

55: Adjust

57: Preserve, as fodder

59: House coat

60: Exaggerate

63: Proper niche

64: Still in play

65: Segments of history

66: Like many a bathroom floor

67: Property title

68: Cut back

1: Munch noisily

2: Embankment down by the riverside

3: Combat site

4: Sprightly

5: Ashen complexion

6: Wrath

7: Stick on a table

8: Band blaster

9: Chilling downpours

10: Man on a mission

11: Hard to figure out

12: Miles per hour, e.g.

13: Debutante, typically

18: Simon Legree

21: Obsolete repro

24: Close again, as an envelope

25: ___ de mer (seasickness)

27: Finder's charge

28: Lineup

30: Fancy-schmancy

31: Fleshy fruit

32: Diploma holder

33: Places

34: Chief point

38: 'We hold ___ truths...'

40: Smooths ruffled feathers

41: 'To each ___ own'

44: Like cherries jubilee

47: Had a flat

48: Went off course

50: Gold dealer's unit

52: Sparkling topper

53: The rite place?

54: They honk and hiss

55: PDA entry

56: Ankles, anatomically

58: Blended-family prefix

60: Trite

61: Contend

62: Original sinner