1: Help for the hapless

5: Curly-leafed cabbage

9: Quartz varieties

14: 'The Grapes of Wrath,' e.g.

15: Alpine climber

16: Sine, cosine, or tangent

17: Time past

18: Artifice

19: Up in the air

20: Leadfoot

22: Breaks, in a way

23: Occult figure

24: Harness race pace

26: 'That was close!'

29: Fit for farming

33: Does nothing

37: Word before ant or brat

39: Down in the dumps

40: Cardinal

41: Diva's repertoire

42: Take it easy

43: Responded 'Not guilty'

44: Campbell of country music

45: Certain unborn young

46: Inveigle

48: Type of admiral

50: Impetuous

52: Peanuts' family

57: Baal bondsman?

60: Kitchen utensil

63: Simple organism

64: Oahu bash

65: Set of related records

66: Scent

67: Ever so proper

68: Fluffy mass

69: Quick puffs

70: Phoenix roundballers

71: On cloud nine

1: Bottomless pit

2: Somewhat crazy

3: Behavioral bases

4: Shooting game

5: Black Forest brandy

6: Share a border with

7: Add-on for Congo

8: Wield

9: Demosthenes, for one

10: Pleasing to the taste

11: Bit to split

12: Limb's partner

13: Tipplers

21: Cocktail hour assortment

25: Solar beams

27: Count's counterpart

28: More sardonic

30: Rorschach image

31: Pip

32: They get into sushi

33: Mischief-makers

34: Either of the racing Earnhardts

35: Spun yarns

36: Not that bad

38: Lion's pride

41: Reason and Enlightenment

45: On the house

47: Many 'streets' of Venice

49: They may be full of shots

51: Lends a hand

53: Lineman's aids

54: Handy

55: Honeydew, for one

56: At attention

57: Days gone by

58: BB's and bullets

59: Nerd's friend

61: Wise guy?

62: Persuade, with 'over'