Crossword Puzzle: Small Stuff by Fred Piscop

 5  Sacred bird of the Pharaohs

 9  __ out (examine, slangily)

14 Mideast bigwig

15 Alaska gold rush city

16 Welcome words to a hitchhiker

17 La __ (weather worry)

18 Heroic deed

19 Blunted blades

20 Smallish NBA Hall of Famer

23 Ambulance letters

24 Vote against

25 Proper to a fault

29 Letters on a Cardinal's cap

31 Belted one out

35 Feared mosquito

36 Mad Magazine feature

38 "Get my point?"

39 Nightgown wearer of rhyme

42 NASA "walk"

43 Kunta Kinte's story

44 Year-end songs

45 Shoulder muscle, briefly

47 Middling grade

48 Play a reel, say

49 Neighbor of Mex.

51 Daddies

52 "Long Tall Sally" singer

59 Like a dryer trap, before cleaning

60 Portable dwelling

61 Gen-__ (post-boom babies)

63 Run __ of the law

64 Savvy about

65 Giant hop

66 Al __ (pasta order)

67 Koh-i-__ diamond

68 On pins and needles

 1  Jerry's partner in ice cream

 2  Forget to include

 3  Short skirt

 4  Fiber source

 5  Word in an FDR speech of 12/8/41

 6  Afrikaners

 7  Un-PC computer?

 8  Clockmaker __ Thomas

 9  Biblical queendom

10 Some patients' outlays

11 Kadett automaker

12 Like Hamelin's piper

13 USNA grad

21 Polite affirmation

22 How a trucker might go up a hill

25 Handled roughly

26 Superman player

27 10 out of 10, e.g.

28 Give a darn?

29 Treat maliciously

30 Tot's "piggies"

32 Was inquisitive

33 "Jurassic Park" star Sam

34 V-formation fliers

36 Gin flavoring

37 Maze goal

40 All-stops subway train

41 Tacit assent

46 "That's hardly proper"

48 Contributing element

50 What's in, in fashion

51 Spotted horse

52 Long prison sentence

53 A party to

54 Rival of Harrow

55 Gambling mecca

56 Auto shaft

57 Saxophonist's buy

58 Bummer

59 Terhune title character

62 007, for one