1: Creep

5: Whistle-blowers, of a sort

9: Merlin incantation

14: Neural fiber

15: Spoken

16: Eagle's nest

17: Significant stage

19: Stay for a while

20: Cassoulet cooker

21: Blob of used gum

23: Lincoln loc.

24: Colored eye part

26: Noisy insect

28: One who knows the score

33: Keeps secret

34: Scheduled

35: NPR has none

38: Budgets make them meet

39: Mixed in

41: The Sail (southern constellation)

43: PC bailout

44: Diddly-squat

45: Anklebone

46: Clemson and others

50: Close again, as an envelope

53: Quakers or Shakers

54: Shade tree

55: Kind of talk

57: Feeling caused by failure

62: Billiards surface

64: Water down

66: Absolute, as nonsense

67: Machine with a shuttle

68: Hearty meal

69: Shabby-looking

70: 'Don't stop'

71: Highlander's hats

1: Copier foul-ups

2: Stage direction

3: Butler, for Gable

4: Was certain of

5: Blades of choppers

6: Hot

7: Idol worshiper

8: Did in, old-style

9: One responsible for managing clubs

10: Shape with cutting blows

11: Combat site

12: All stirred up

13: Peach ___

18: Turners at cookouts

22: Performed on stage

25: Parts of them are a cinch

27: Nob's accessory, perhaps

28: '___ Loves You'

29: State tree of Maine

30: Track figures

31: Save from a flood, say

32: Take to court

36: Home of heroes?

37: Turn on an axis

39: Old-womanish

40: N.L. Central, e.g.

42: Balaam's mount

45: Influential person

47: Table linens

48: Parish pastor

49: Con game, e.g.

50: Picture puzzle

51: Fill with joy

52: Smack down

56: Date source

58: Burst of wind

59: ___-tat

60: Short newspaper piece

61: 'That's ___ to me!'

63: Brit's alphabet ender

65: Excessively