Across 1. Gerrymander districts, say 7. Perform poorly 11. Piz Bernina. e.g. 14. It's up to Speedy Gonzales? 15. Cameo shape 16. Jane Smiley novel set at an agricultural college 17. Fruit flies with this gene have underdeveloped hearts 18. Dogma disputers 20. Baudolino author 21. Fruit flies with this gene have swirling wing-hair patterns 23. Yacht spot 24. Smeltery waste 25. Fruit flies with this gene have no external sex organs 31. Word following sing or string 32. Respond at roll call 36. Sugar suffix 37. Gives a part to 39. Unit of pressure 40. Identical 43. Where Zeus took Europa 45. Fruit flies with this gene live longer 48. ___ show (street entertainment) 51. Wagner heroine 52. Larval fruit flies with this gene never leave their eggshells 56. Meet the bet of 59. ___ system (feudal institution) 60. Fruit flies with this gene have upwardly-angled wings 62. eBay action 63. Poet ___ Wheeler Wilcox 64. "What we ask for when we alreadt know the answer but wish we didn't": Erica Jong 65. Lennon's "ocean child" 66. Flout 67. Shrubby wastelands

Down 1. Degree of speed 2. Novelist Ambler 3. 1962 Joseph Wiseman role 4. Outer edge 5. Bringing down 6. Poster heading 7. Quantum-theory pioneer 8. All through 9. Tudor queen 10. Assimilate 11. Che, to Fidel 12. Scottish inlets 13. Newsgroup messages 19. Out of gas 22. Wall St. trader, for short 23. Goat-legged Greek god 25. C.O.N.T.R.O.L. enemy 26. Ultimatum word 27. When icicle lights appear 28. Plus 29. "Poppycock!" 30. One that goes to school twice a day 33. Wedding-vows word 34. Possible explanation for a coincidence 35. Mandolin feature 37. Pink-slip 38. Catullus's "Odi et ___" 41. 1980's Pontiac 42. Spread 43. Outpouring 44. Vitamin-bottle abbr. 46. Society girl 47. Mendelssohn oratorio 48. Sly character? 49. "Come ___?" 50. Sonata finisher, often 53. Voltaic ___ (prototypical battery) 54. Play period 55. Rival of Nivea 56. Bad mood 57. Work with acid 58. Argus' 100 61. Thos. Jefferson founded it

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