1: Give the ax to

5: Thick carpets

10: Rope fiber

14: Shrek, e.g.

15: Embroidery loop

16: Spoken

17: Name on the door, often

19: Get an eyeful

20: Bother persistently

21: Copied

23: 'Sure thing!'

24: Smidge

26: Start to mature?

27: Fixed, as a shoe

29: Pitcher's pitch, sometimes

33: Piece of property

36: Dumbo's 'wings'

38: Something that might make the fur fly?

39: Irritate

40: Wrap around

42: Lighted sign contents

43: Yellowish brown pigment

45: Adult ugly duckling

46: Digs of twigs

47: Cactus with buttons

49: Dogcatcher's quarry, at times

51: Garbage bag closer

52: Helios, to the Romans

53: Mag. submissions

56: Marred

60: Of the lips

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

63: Buoyancy

66: Harbinger

67: Fill with joy

68: Withered

69: Golf ball pegs

70: Thick

71: Drainpipe bend

1: Soaked

2: Go along

3: Vampire repellent

4: Held on to

5: Rose steadily

6: Get going

7: It may be passed on the Hill

8: Well-behaved

9: Denudes

10: Folkfest

11: Thus

12: Stag or bull, e.g.

13: Responded 'Not guilty'

18: Upgrade the decor

22: Hang decorations on

25: Den denizens

27: Concert program listing

28: Neither wins nor loses

30: Joint with a cap

31: Qualities of the conceited

32: Monthly payment, for many

33: Jack-in-the-pulpit

34: Arrive

35: Kidders tickle them

37: Old footwear

41: Register signer

44: One way to travel

48: Looked wolfishly

50: Jai ___

53: Underground worker

54: Pelvic bones

55: Enjoy a bed

56: Frequent Las Vegas money taker

57: Fleshy fruit

58: Type of arch

59: Proofreader's mark

61: Gold medal-winning

64: Japanese honorific

65: Tag players