1: Balaam's mount

4: Brouhaha

8: Call's partner

12: Fruit for flavoring gin

13: Greek letter

14: Almost eternity

16: Gondolier gear

17: Some votes

18: Single-masted sailing vessel

19: 'What have we here?'

20: Wager

21: Picked up a lap

23: Pig's digs

24: Sample, as the soup

26: Soup veggie

28: NPR has none

30: Portable bed

32: Letters on a keyboard key

36: White-faced performer

39: K or G

41: 'Flee, fly!'

42: Time-wasting bother

43: Backs, anatomically

45: List abbr.

46: Down-to-earth

48: Tennis match divisions

49: Run for

50: Bowling alley

51: Supplied

52: Upsilon follower

54: Water temperature 'gauge'

56: Disconcert

60: Sensational

63: Lincoln loc.

65: Per hundred (Abbr.)

67: '___ Loves You'

68: Squadrons

70: Sailor's greeting

72: '___ Came You' (1974 Dionne Warwick and Spinners chart-topper)

73: Spirit in a bottle

74: Goes bad

75: Crimsons

76: On cloud nine

77: Gold medal-winning

78: November winners

1: Maui greeting

2: Flight school finals

3: Attend

4: Word with print or point

5: Rioter's illegal take

6: Had a bite

7: Quarterback's call

8: Tend to the turkey

9: Slim swimmer

10: Murmurs tenderly

11: Half hitch, e.g.

12: Position

15: Undercover worker

20: Four-poster, e.g.

22: Liable

25: Menlo Park monogram

27: Rm. coolers

29: Avg.

30: Took the heart out of

31: Vote off the island

33: Quaker's address

34: Repetitive routine

35: Door fastener

36: Crumbly clay mixture

37: Brainwave

38: Eerie sound

40: Gardener's coil

44: Pharaohs' symbol of power

47: '___ me think about it'

49: Sis or bro

51: Finder's charge

53: Ring toss item?

55: First symptoms

57: White as a ghost

58: Loses one's coat

59: Biddies

60: Show of affection

61: Kind of column

62: Spork part

64: Insulting remark

65: Flower sites

66: Dermatologist's concern

69: Tenth wedding anniversary gift

71: Garden tool

72: Cycle starter