1: Apt rhyme for 'dale'

5: Chest protectors

9: Word after paper or before skinned

13: Sacred bird of Egypt

14: Unusual collectible

15: Subordinate staffer

16: Accordion's relative

18: Botched up

19: Original sinner

20: Docs for doggies

21: Some chinaware

23: Had a premonition

25: Cruise ship terminal

26: Ones who tell you when your slip is showing?

32: Feel compassion

35: Couples

36: Verbal zinger

37: Temper

38: Merlot cask

39: Farm tower

40: Bar

41: John, Paul, or George, but not Ringo

43: Warm up, for short

44: One who knows the score

48: Chance occurrences

49: Deep gulfs

53: Orb

56: Tree branch

58: Maw's partner

59: Motion-carrying votes

60: Imitation diamond

63: Herr's helpmate

64: Submerges

65: Use a whetstone

66: They get into sushi

67: Antsy

68: Abrupt bit of thunder

1: Bad habits

2: Superior in rank

3: Sheets

4: PC bailout

5: Joke object

6: Colored eye part

7: Container

8: More sudsy

9: Knight's sleeveless tunic

10: Dagger handle

11: ___ fixe

12: 'That's ___ to me!'

14: Doctrine of belief

17: At all

22: Meadows

24: Stepped on it

25: Crime scene clues

27: Study of light

28: Zoologist's study

29: Dubai VIP

30: Butler, for Gable

31: Word on an octagon

32: Band boxes?

33: Brilliant stroke

34: King of the road

39: Nimble

41: Name on the marquee

42: Slander

45: Lab monkey

46: Breaks, in a way

47: Reduces in intensity

50: Thread holder

51: Food from above, biblically

52: Win them all

53: Decision made at home?

54: Fiery stack

55: Get better

56: Heather

57: Like a moonless night

61: Buried

62: Pot ingredient?