1: Conducting rod?

6: 'Them' insects

10: Hurt, as a knee

14: On the go

15: ___ accompli

16: Prefix with European

17: Slow, tree-dwelling mammal

18: Family follower?

19: Exigency

20: Vital post on a ship

21: Makes wet and dirty, as from rain

23: Canine kin

25: Flavored cucumbers

26: Trick-taking card game

28: 1996 Geoffrey Rush film

30: Ups

31: Down in the dumps

32: Words with precedent

36: Musclebound brute

37: Most likely to cause goose flesh

40: Just released

41: Parsley or sage

43: Siestas

44: The rite place?

46: Lucky strikes

48: Like a clear night

49: Germ cell

51: Use unwisely

52: Opening address

55: Indian music

58: Dollar competitor

59: Change

60: Mountain climber's spike

61: Kind of pool

62: October birthstone

63: About

64: Responds correctly on 'Jeopardy!'

65: Trust, with 'on'

66: Potted plant place

1: Celebration

2: Up to the task

3: Certain machinist

4: Make obsolete

5: Utmost

6: Following

7: Aromatic ointment

8: Hippodrome section

9: Stabilizes

10: They're not married

11: Mournful peal

12: Nice thoughts

13: Acknowledges silently

21: ___-relief

22: Beefeater, e.g.

24: Add-on for Congo

26: Former Iranian ruler

27: Main part?

28: Errors

29: Colors

31: Scottish hillside

33: Implored

34: Duct product

35: Off course

38: Industrious effort

39: Skin designs, for short

42: Tops for a lady

45: Military head?

47: Food scrap

48: Verbalize

49: Puts on the hard drive

50: Shoot at a target

51: With irony

52: Sprawling narrative

53: A runner may break it

54: Spoken

56: Cymbal relative

57: Players may up it

60: Spanky, to Alfalfa