1: Root beer alternative

5: Wails

9: Disconcert

14: Single thing

15: Angelic aura

16: Deli counter fish

17: Dispersed

19: More correct

20: More dry and withered

21: Metal-shaping tool

23: Slam dunk point count

24: Diddly-squat

26: Surgery sites, briefly

28: Shore construction

34: Burn soother

38: Tint

39: Verdi creations

40: Festive affair

41: Rewrite for a film, say

43: Pester for payment

44: Stacks for the winter

45: Old Italian money

46: Sheet of connective tissue

48: Fade away

49: Give the slip to

50: Butted in

52: Jazz instrument, briefly

54: Building wing

55: Photo ___ (campaign events)

58: Axels and lutzes

62: Plant problem

66: Courted

68: 1775 foe of the British

70: 'You've got some ___!'

71: World War II partnership

72: River residue

73: Operate the rudder

74: Ballyhoo

75: Family follower?

1: Use foul language

2: Formerly

3: False witness

4: Join the party

5: '___ Loves You'

6: Galley propellers

7: Botched up

8: Soft drink

9: Fall bloom

10: Block passage through

11: Share a border with

12: Did in, old-style

13: Long lunch?

18: Knitted fabric

22: 'Here ___ nothing!'

25: Full circle, on the track

27: Starch from palms

28: Intend to

29: Record output

30: Gets closer to

31: Chrysler product

32: U.S. coin word

33: Knight stick

35: Enriches, in a way

36: Jukebox choice

37: Lightened up

42: They're 16th of 26

44: Possible dose

46: Prix ___

47: Wrath

51: Firstborn

53: Rot-resistant wood

55: Has made the last payment on

56: Browning of pages of verse, for example

57: Ruing the run, perhaps

59: Indian housemaid

60: Mischief maker of folklore (Var.)

61: Barbershop sound

63: Dubai VIP

64: Stag or bull, e.g.

65: Players may up it

67: Original sinner

69: Employ