1: Frequent Las Vegas money taker

5: Community character

10: Loud door sound

14: Off the mark

15: Grieve

16: King of the road

17: 'No ifs, ___, or buts!'

18: Salk's conquest

19: Reason and Enlightenment

20: #1 in a list?

22: Acknowledges silently

23: Van Gogh's love offering

24: Where Barry Bonds plays, briefly

26: Defenders of the country

31: Church toppers

35: In the past

36: Hints of rain

38: ___-mouthed (insincere)

39: False witness

41: Reaches across

43: Amaze

44: Adjective for some statesmen

46: Filthy abodes

48: List abbr.

49: Send again

51: Heights

53: Cheese with a red coat

55: Prohibition

56: Roman wrap

59: Chewed out

65: Article that may list survivors

66: Acquire, as a debt

67: Burro bellow

68: Break-taker's number

69: Glacial inlet: Var.

70: All-conquering emotion

71: Secondhand

72: Looks bored

73: Spots

1: Mop up

2: Pat response

3: Track figures

4: Lab technician, perhaps

5: Hirohito, et al.

6: Wrench, e.g.

7: Seed covering

8: Corbeled-out window

9: Annoys a spouse, in a way

10: Hobos' abodes

11: Merrill Lynch's bull, e.g.

12: All tucked in

13: Rolling stone's lack, proverbially

21: Uttered

25: 28,800 seconds before midnight

26: Less colorful

27: Quick-thinking

28: Natterjacks, e.g.

29: Spinning toys

30: Old footwear

32: Appraiser

33: Remove by dissolving

34: Lip ___ (emulates Milli Vanilli)

37: Blue funk

40: Prepared leftovers

42: Petrels and pelicans

45: Free

47: Kind of beetle

50: Appease

52: Incompetent

54: Excessive enthusiasm

56: Vegan's staple

57: Geishas' sashes

58: '___ Peace a Chance'

60: Garbage barge

61: Chance to play

62: 'Aeneid' city

63: Roof rim

64: Turns red, perhaps