1: Prepares an apple, perhaps

6: Raise crops

10: Check mark

14: Flying solo

15: Type of arch

16: Jai ___

17: Al ___ (pasta order)

18: Down-to-earth

19: Crooked

20: One way to ride a horse

22: It may get plastered

23: Reef material

24: Dole (out)

26: Flyers with narrow waists

29: Series beginning

33: City near Scottsdale

37: Cry over spilled milk

38: Got old, as bread

39: Piercing tools

40: Intended

42: Aromatic ointment

43: Tenants sometimes break them

45: Pigeon patter

46: Turns red, perhaps

47: Any acetate, chemically

48: ___ firma

50: Withered

52: 'The Sound of ___'

56: Penal code entries

59: Type of flu

63: Table spread

64: Roll, as a flag

65: Debut

66: Niagara Falls sound

67: Word on a gift tag

68: Do away with

69: They get into sushi

70: Tennis match divisions

71: Beef and pork

1: Heels

2: Kind of acid

3: Sonata section

4: 'Come on in'

5: Teetertotter

6: Wade across

7: Stored to develop aroma, as tobacco

8: Dominions

9: Free-for-all

10: Mesa

11: Some intestinal divisions

12: Underworld lingo

13: Partner of kin

21: Wake-up noises

25: Feline, to Tweety

27: Take to court

28: Serenity

30: 'Hamlet,' for example

31: Roll call response

32: Sums up

33: Stag or bull, e.g.

34: Merino mamas

35: Trellis piece

36: Their job is taxing

38: Nor'easters, e.g.

41: Easter preceder?

44: Palindromic preposition

48: What most college professors desire

49: Social behavior issue

51: Eric Clapton solos

53: As of

54: IV part

55: Diamond weight

56: Old wives' tales and such

57: Burn soother

58: Welt

60: Harness race pace

61: Boulevard liners

62: Uses an ax