1: Piercing tools

5: Proper niche

10: Flightless bird

14: Fen fuel

15: Carafe quantity

16: Count's counterpart

17: Shore construction

19: Family nickname

20: Man in a lodge

21: '___ Tomorrow' (Sammy Kaye)

22: Green garnish

23: Wager

24: Craft entered gingerly

26: Reclining chairs

30: What jumping the gun may cause

34: Stag

35: Word before sheet or session

37: Damper

38: Helps with the heist

40: Tricked

42: 'Laugh-In' comedienne Judy

43: ___ gland (organ that secretes melatonin)

45: Ancient mariner

47: Chomp

48: Screen ingenue

50: Bust to a private, say

52: Chrysler product

54: 'Sweet Pea' singer Tommy

55: Popular side dishes

58: Made bovine noises

60: Start to mature?

63: Became threadbare

64: North American wild duck

66: Players may up it

67: Curvilinear

68: No longer green

69: SAT part

70: Property claims

71: 'Them' insects

1: Church recess

2: Welt

3: Long and lean

4: Avg.

5: Decorative pot

6: Grocery shopper's reference

7: Tall story?

8: Last place

9: Palindromic preposition

10: Too bad

11: Fabled race loser

12: Segments of history

13: Help for the hapless

18: Signals

22: Trig. function

23: Conflicting flavors

25: Just released

26: Blokes

27: Riding attire

28: Combat site

29: Droop

31: Well-lit lobbies

32: Flat rates?

33: Giant sequoias, e.g.

36: Stewing vessel

39: Marketing data

41: Small amount

44: Ran in front

46: Studies carefully, in a way

49: Japanese sauce

51: Types of Atlantic fish

53: Time being

55: Smack, as a baseball

56: Unaccompanied

57: They may be liberal

59: Where cookies might crumble

60: Annoyance

61: Proof of pmt.

62: Barely manages, with 'out'

64: 'Silent' prez, familiarly

65: Two-piece piece