1: Balaam's mount

4: Libel, for instance

8: Yardarm

13: Kind of talk

14: Ceremonial practice

15: Bummed out

16: Unmoving pieces by Henry Moore, e.g.

18: Baltimore baseballer

19: Count's counterpart

20: Bearing gifts?

22: Seeds for buns

26: Sprightly

27: Poetic analogies

29: Qualities of the conceited

33: Thanksgiving asset

36: Apt

37: Soup veggie

38: Foot pedal

41: Star pitcher

42: Fence pickets

44: Ocean's composition

46: Kane's dying thought

47: More bulked up

49: Icky stuff

51: Earth movers?

55: Called back

59: Football's contour

60: Most chilling?

61: Gamut

65: Tries to tag, maybe

66: Element removed from gasoline

67: Diddly-squat

68: Publisher Henry and romance novelist Victoria

69: Subdivision divisions

70: Szechuan sauce source

1: Church recesses

2: Bristles

3: Practices punching

4: Cycle starter

5: Coat of many colors?

6: Map abbr.

7: SAT part

8: More ticked

9: Computer adjunct

10: Word with beer or cellar

11: Sea spot

12: Miffed, with 'off'

15: Spies

17: Having a ho-hum attitude

21: Musclebound brute

23: Dugout gear

24: Dubai VIP

25: Something to build on

28: Tenant's contract

30: Bearded mammal

31: Formerly

32: Person of vision

33: PC software

34: Sound of laughter

35: Far from ruddy

36: New World flycatcher

39: Nimble-fingered

40: Hideaway

43: Least calm

45: Knight dress?

47: Eats and runs?

48: Squeeze (out)

50: Desert refuges

52: They're often preheated

53: Sine, cosine, or tangent

54: With an ulterior motive

55: 'If I Were a ___ Man'

56: Sound on the rebound

57: Old-time telephone feature

58: Farmer's hangout, in a children's song

62: Opposite of paleo-

63: Feline, to Tweety

64: Passports, e.g (abbr.)