1: Fluffy mass

5: Large group

9: Hearty meal

13: Plumb crazy

14: Exposed

16: Blast furnace fuel

17: 'Hey, that hurts!'

18: More adorable

19: Broke ground, perhaps

20: Gets snoopy

22: Car exhaust systems components

24: Soup herb

26: Trade agreement

27: Banned NFL substances

31: Some medical procedures

34: Ossuary

35: Finishes ahead of

37: Brief instant

39: Racetrack stops

41: Lowercase

43: 'I'm better than you' sort

44: Old footwear

46: No-nonsense

48: Baby bear

49: Narrow incisions

51: Hirohito, et al.

53: Sandbox plaything

55: Appear

56: Connecting symbol

61: Syrup source

64: Ring-tailed critter

65: Love affair

67: Wheedle

68: Coagulated milk

69: Embankment down by the riverside

70: Package carrier

71: Sawbucks

72: Deep-massage developer

73: What some writers work on

1: Turkey

2: Look sullen

3: Western

4: One sharing the wealth?

5: Ad ___ committee

6: Egg, classically

7: Words with precedent

8: Pollster's detection

9: Academic types

10: Wrench, e.g.

11: Scratched (out)

12: Ties the knot

15: Has a go at

21: Neatnik's nemesis

23: It's true

25: Tells a whopper

27: Takes an evening course?

28: Takes a tumble, at times

29: Broodmares

30: New South Wales, for one

32: Silly goose

33: Rub and rub and rub

36: Loud door sound

38: Reduces in intensity

40: Fixed payments, as for students

42: ChapStick target

45: Name on the marquee

47: Judge

50: Rugmaking fiber

52: Flinches or frowns, say

54: Poorer, as excuses go

56: Dept. store shopper's privilege

57: Pout

58: X-rated material

59: De ___ (from the beginning)

60: Swordfight

62: Not on schedule

63: Firm head

66: KO caller