1: Fare for the toothless

4: Door clasp

8: Quarterback's call

12: Mr. Peanut accessory

13: Cornerstone datum

14: Give permission for

16: Single thing

17: Okefenokee Swamp inhabitant of fiction

18: Small aperture

19: President pro ___

20: Cygnet's mother

21: Pose for a pic

23: Emolument

24: Party's candidates

26: Hansom vehicle

28: Come to pass

30: Get nosy

32: Like some eagles

36: Las Vegas rollers

39: Puzzle piece

41: Oahu bash

42: Wood-dressing tool

43: Breaks, in a way

45: Merlot cask

46: Place for the catbird?

48: Construct

49: Repairs the outfield

50: Roll call response

51: ___-relief

52: 'Quadrophenia' band, with 'The'

54: Vote to kill

56: Disconcert

60: Many a time

63: Lincoln loc.

65: EPA computation

67: Map abbr.

68: Tornado siren, e.g.

70: Type of arch

72: '___ there, done that'

73: Airs

74: Lick

75: Emulates Eminem

76: Get a glimpse of

77: Juniors, usually

78: Balaam's mount

1: Committee

2: Inner self

3: Furry friend

4: Ballyhoo

5: Many millennia

6: Droop

7: Lions and Tigers and Bears

8: Orzo or ziti

9: Peak stat

10: Sow's sustenance

11: Body of an organism

12: Budget decisions

15: Method

20: Soup veggie

22: Very cold

25: Pooh's middle name?

27: Unit of oil production, briefly

29: Per hundred (Abbr.)

30: Wild cats

31: Be a stinker

33: Mercury or Saturn

34: Speak well of

35: Presses for payment

36: Recipe guesstimate

37: ___ fixe

38: Undemocratic leader

40: Buddhist leader

44: Stitch up

47: Half a score

49: Turn on the waterworks

51: Tournament exemption

53: Crone

55: Unable to sit still

57: Geometry calculations

58: Dozen for a recovery group

59: Biddies

60: Feed seed

61: Sooty shaft

62: Sawbucks

64: Quick curtsies

65: Nasty

66: Spot and Fido

69: One's good name, briefly

71: Metro maker

72: Two-piece piece