1: Jack of nursery rhyme

6: Absorb, with 'up'

9: Did in, old-style

13: Morsel

14: Gives the heave-ho

16: Gondolier gear

17: Word before crust or hand

18: Hit with hailstones

19: Miami cagers

20: Opposite of paleo-

21: Concerns for ecologists

24: Burn with steam

26: Marital antonym of 'better'

27: On the up-and-up?

29: Academy frosh

31: Sesame starter?

32: Refer indirectly

34: 'Caught you!'

37: Dunderheads

39: Feel unwell

40: More ticked

42: Fancy affairs

43: Stands near those who sit

46: In bad humor

47: Jousting bouts

48: Waldorf salad ingredient

50: Billiards surface

52: Anxieties

53: Foundation

56: Little one

59: Branchlet

60: Comparison word

61: Heartburn cause, often

63: Get all stirred up

64: Foal's father

65: Gin companion

66: Minus

67: Silent sayso

68: Western lilies

1: Created a web site?

2: Main part?

3: Take back due to nonpayment

4: Star pitcher

5: Earthling, in sci-fi

6: Palatable

7: Whom the yoke's on?

8: Ill-gotten gain

9: Orb

10: Windblown soil

11: Fill with joy

12: Spritzes

15: Put away

22: Pond organism

23: Boxers' wraps

25: French film

27: Word in seven Hope titles

28: ___ facto

29: Ballet bends

30: Peaceful period

33: Bringing up the rear

34: Attention-grabbing

35: Junior, usually

36: Word before ant or brat

38: Grab hold of

41: Get an eyeful

44: Warnings

45: Read quickly

47: Small traces

49: Puts up

50: David of 'The Man Who Fell to Earth'

51: Seed coverings

52: Funnel-shaped

53: Letters on a keyboard key

54: Ankle-knee connector

55: Tropical root

57: Potpourri

58: Nervous twitches

62: Garden tool