1: 'If I Were a ___ Man'

5: Melonlike fruit

10: Help for the hapless

14: Primordial sludge

15: Ticked off

16: 'I'm history!'

17: Cave deposit

19: Oates partner

20: Ahead of schedule

21: Produced a likeness of

23: Mont Blanc, for one

26: Churchill's title

27: 'Boston Public' figure

34: Peru's capital

36: Attend

37: Welcome guests

38: Footnote word

39: Collar inserts

42: Drive train element

43: Free-for-all

45: Red or Yellow

46: Promontory

47: Cowardly, in slang

51: Wedding page word

52: Kind of talk

53: Identical

58: Keyboard key

63: Keen

64: In a robust manner

67: Bailiwick

68: Destroy by degrees

69: Criticism

70: Commercial endorsement

71: Put a counter to zero

72: Lavish party

1: Thorny flower

2: Greek letter

3: Undemocratic leader

4: Satan's domain

5: Corkscrew-tailed animal

6: Get ready for a fight

7: Weak poker hand

8: Bear witness

9: Hot dog

10: Feel compassion

11: False witness

12: Stag or bull, e.g.

13: Listened to the bears

18: Indian maid

22: Bummer

24: Write-off

25: Browning of pages of verse, for example

27: Scent

28: Caravan beast

29: Tenant's contract

30: Construction site hoist

31: Put the whammy on

32: They get into sushi

33: St. and ave.

34: Like a rickey

35: ___ fixe

40: Puppy's plaint

41: Cause of a Macy's riot?

44: Geological time periods

48: Actress Sigourney

49: Soil

50: ___ facto

53: Give this for that

54: Count's counterpart

55: Stead

56: Pennant

57: Qualities of the conceited

59: Bit of a fit

60: Sea spot

61: Not having enough carbonation

62: Youngster

65: Pindar product

66: Out of work? (abbr.)