Across 1. What followers often follow 6. It follows aleph 10. It comes before knowledge 14. It comes before and follows disparate acts 15. Part of a soothing salve 16. Angora, for example 17. Composer Tchaikovsky 18. Austen title heroine 19. Panzer Dragoon ____ (Xbox game) 20. Place to buy designer ales 23. Set of beliefs 25. Location of "Grytan/The cauldron" 26. Having a generous disposition 30. ICU fixtures 31. The Mississippi has one 32. Oxidizes 36. Tiny pasta 38. It meant nothing to Caesar 40. Tip top 41. Disturb 43. A minor prophet of Judeo-Christian writings 45. Clay became this in 1964 46. Pyramid or cube, for example 49. Not Nordic, at the Winter Olympics 52. Ice Cube's original first name 53. Potential existences 57. An avatar of Vishnu in Hindu mythology 58. Lida or Gypsy 59. Sport George W. Bush played at Yale 63. ___ the beginning (there from the start) 64. Where Napoleon wasn't "able" 65. A ____ Called Quest 66. Smallville last name 67. Dismally damp 68. Acts like a bear?

Down 1. Recipe meas. 2. GPS retailer 3. It's sometimes inflated 4. Tree that's the source of mace 5. Scoffed at 6. Max ____ (American boxer or his Hillbilly son) 7. Ticklish toy? 8. Where Romeo dies 9. American castle owner 10. Attended 11. Like some cold-weather hats 12. British bottle size 13. Copenhagen Playwright Michael ____ 21. Canadian songwriter Leonard ____ 22. Pitcher 23. Make frivilous objections 24. B. & O. stop 26. Joel's Cabaret costar 27. American Nobel Prize-winner ____ Root 28. South African playwright ____ Fugard 29. Mrs. Gorbachev 33. Black Power activist Bobby ____ 34. Adrain portrayer ____ Shire 35. It might leave a mark 37. Be a real pest 39. "Vive ___!" ("Long live the king!") 42. It drops down from Windows 44. Maintains 47. Shifted the car 48. "Like I really believe that!" 49. "Sk8r Boi" singer ____ Lavigne 50. Woody vine in a tropical rain forest 51. Spin doctor 54. She always gets what she wants 55. Amazon ID 56. Furniture wood 60. Final Fantasy funds 61. Crude meas. 62. "You bet!"

The solution to this month's puzzle.