1: Fail to keep up

4: Protective trench

8: Loud door sound

12: For ___ the marbles

13: Nice menu

14: Clove or cinnamon

15: Rhymester

17: Take lessons in

18: Three ___ to the wind (plastered)

19: Swerved

21: Lightens, as a burden

22: Looked (at)

24: 'Kama ___' (Hindu love manual)

26: Kitchen accidents

30: Hansom vehicle

33: Couples

35: High-hatter

36: 'Spenser: For ___' (Urich series)

38: Finishes ahead of

40: Plum variety, commonly

41: Saw

43: Certificate

45: Verbal zinger

46: Do a cobbler's job

48: Pitches

50: Word with stock or black

52: Market place

56: Out there

59: 'O Canada,' e.g.

60: Dressing spot

61: Carol's kings, e.g.

64: Motion defeaters

65: Informal goodbyes

66: Dauphin's denial

67: City near Scottsdale

68: Carved out

69: Wrap up

1: Expire

2: Maui greeting

3: Mirthful states

4: Bulk

5: Food scrap

6: Had a bite

7: By no means long-winded

8: Cannonballing along

9: False witness

10: Piece of property

11: Sew up

13: This you may put on the dog

14: Is in the arms of Morpheus

16: Golf ball pegs

20: 9 - 5, e.g.

22: Gets snoopy

23: Otalgia

25: Check

27: Rich soil

28: Merrill Lynch's bull, e.g.

29: Leave in, to an editor

30: Burn to a crisp

31: Subordinate staffer

32: Lingerie buys

34: Walk proudly

37: Self-preoccupation

39: Churchill's title

42: African antelopes

44: High fliers

47: Energy unit

49: Gains a lap

51: Two-masted craft

53: Did superbly

54: Bar wedge

55: Correct copy

56: Did the butterfly

57: Musical pitch

58: Road grooves

59: Many millennia

62: Get going

63: Brutally frank