1: Cass Elliot, once

5: Night birds

9: Proof of pmt.

13: Motion-carrying votes

14: '... and baby makes ___'

15: Sailor's greeting

16: Sanctioned

18: Hit bottom

19: Pester for payment

20: Boil fluid

21: Seek cover, maybe

22: Lift-off followers

26: Belt beepers

28: Murmurs tenderly

29: Talk foolishly

31: Winged stinger

32: Shade tree

33: Double agents

35: Inscribed pillar

38: St. Louis gridder

39: Bank employees

41: Hold up

42: Prickly shrub

44: Dogcatcher's quarry, at times

45: Temp

46: Surface-to-surface missile

48: Brief time, briefly

49: Dummy

50: ___ analysis (branch of calculus)

52: Changed from green to red

54: Stable mate

55: Lambaste

57: Pouch in the body

58: Tickled pink

59: Certain punctuation mark

64: Remote possibility?

65: Fender bender nicks

66: Castle in a board game

67: Golf ball pegs

68: Bacchanalian blast

69: Fries, often

1: ___ de mer (seasickness)

2: Bluto's assent

3: Actress Ryan

4: Dramatist's ploys

5: Electrical unit

6: Envelop

7: Relax

8: Teetertotter

9: Least circumspect

10: Committee head

11: Swimming holes

12: Youngster

14: Shot from the Civil War, perhaps

17: Merlot cask

22: Sour

23: From the nearest star

24: Express sympathy

25: Jib and spanker

27: Loquacious, in slang

30: Trapper's collection

33: Walk proudly

34: More dry and withered

36: Jeweler's eyeglass

37: Receded

40: Bigots

43: Consents

47: El ___ (legendary city of gold)

49: Decorating styles

50: Worth

51: Not so green

53: What golfers try to break

54: CEO, CFO, etc.

56: Pioneering video game

60: Pig's digs

61: Polynesian paste

62: Bricklayer's item

63: Squeeze (out)