1: Con job

5: Turkish bigwig

10: Prefix with European

14: Fabled race loser

15: In base 8

16: Injure badly

17: Behaves

18: Tests that allow talking

19: Produced offspring

20: Wrongdoer's bane

23: 'I'm Sorry' singer Brenda

24: Balaam's mount

25: Rewrite for a film, say

28: Safety device

30: Greeting bearer

33: Afternoon brew

34: 1982 Grandmaster Flash hit 'The ___'

37: Word in seven Hope titles

38: Professionals who might get your back up?

41: Like most colleges

42: Like Castro or Lincoln

43: Some gametes

44: Ambassador's forte

45: Oboes, e.g.

49: Stuffed delicacy

51: Ossuary

53: Routing term

54: Mottled inlay material

59: Con's confinement

61: Maui greeting

62: Responsibility

63: Get an eyeful

64: Junkyard dog, most likely

65: Word before blocker or testing

66: Stocking stuffers

67: Flies high

68: Tributes in verse

1: Garments for granny

2: Official seal

3: More pretentious

4: GI's diner

5: Forms a puddle

6: Lots, sometimes

7: Thrusting blow

8: Oates partner

9: Besides

10: Set securely (Var.)

11: Story teller

12: Scheduled

13: Trite

21: Kind of candle

22: Blob of used gum

26: Veggies in a pod

27: Small amount

29: In the thick of

30: Diamond weight

31: Emulsifying agent

32: Shipping dept. stamp

35: Buckwheat noodles of Japan

36: What some writers work on

37: Went by horseback

38: Sheltered inlet

39: With gusto

40: Shore birds

41: Massachusetts cape

44: Ancient mariner

46: Made smooth (with 'out')

47: Water down

48: Some condiments

50: Spies

51: Introduce, with 'in'

52: Brings up

55: Filing aids

56: Potpourri

57: Greek letter

58: King of the road

59: Pinch

60: In the past