5. Big bang maker

10. Farm youth

14. Rural route

15. Surrounding glows

16. Run the show, so to speak

17. How strange!

19. Notions holder

20. Flip-flop

21. Percussion instrument

22. They can be slippery at times

23. Microsoft co-founder

25. Old Jewish scholars

27. Spanish urban quarter

30. Exhaust

31. Felt bad about

32. Comply with

35. Deceived

38. Bread machine?

39. This puzzle's theme

41. Anger

42. A goner

44. Math calculation

45. Manipulator

46. Flightless birds

48. Barefoot

50. Twists

51. Middle Eastern rice dish (var.)

53. And others, for short

54. Whiskey drink

56. Congo's former name

60. Balance sheet item

61. How strange!

63. Editing notation

64. Civilian clothes

65. Bank claim

66. Mimic

67. Antique auto

68. It's a lock

1. ___ du jour

2. Sunday's roast on Monday night

3. Fascinated by

4. Composer Bernstein

5. Chinese dynasty

6. Move a bit

7. Celestial hunter

8. Horace or Thomas

9. Alms seeker

10. Comp

11. How strange!

12. Grads

13. Island rings

18. Wrinkly tangelo

24. Booty

26. Bundle

27. German sausage, for short

28. Mercury, for one

29. How strange!

30. Unit of force

33. Support systems?

34. Unit of corn

36. Twisted treat, at times

37. Doofus

39. Fret

40. Ancient France

43. Protect

45. Most often

47. Appropriate

49. Extra in "The Producers"

50. Very costly

51. Cream-filled pastries

52. Beyond miffed

53. Icelandic epic

55. Tough task

57. Hip bones

58. Cambodian bread?

59. Coastal raptor

62. A little of this, a little of that