1: Exemplary

6: '___ me think about it'

9: Beat the tar out of

13: Inner self

14: Fireman's tool

15: Two-door car

16: Young codfish

17: American voters before 1920

18: Match play?

19: Resolves

21: Infamous garden creature

23: Slim swimmer

24: Place for the catbird?

25: ___-relief

28: Test-driver's car

30: Cheyenne shelters

35: PC software

37: They often clog the major arteries

39: Popular fragrance

40: Do a spit take

41: Tuckers out

43: Heart of the matter

44: Intestinal

46: Major ___

47: Hearty meal

48: Marsh plants

50: Droop

52: Long time

53: Pulls a heist

55: Zoological duct

57: Alexander Calder art form

61: Portico's cousin

65: Anklebone

66: 'PUSH FOR ___'

68: Character assault

69: Market place

70: Dauphin's denial

71: Call off, at Cape Canaveral

72: Lump of clay

73: Creator of the universe

74: Gangling

1: Bulk

2: Formerly

3: Political gossip, at times

4: Be a ham

5: Dipped out, as soup

6: Hightails it

7: Devon river

8: On pins and needles

9: Village or hamlet

10: Artifice

11: Very familiar with

12: Crooked

15: Price-regulating group

20: Campaign poster plea

22: Feed one's face

24: Causes of grief and regret

25: Foundation

26: McIntosh or Granny Smith

27: Radar reading

29: Female domestic

31: Fivesome on a five

32: Ruling class

33: Cafeteria customer

34: Unstressed vowel

36: Booty

38: Final prelim

42: Work through

45: Red shade

49: Helios, to the Romans

51: Ankle-related

54: Creature

56: Ballroom dance of Brazil

57: Kind of beetle

58: Follow

59: Besides

60: Light source

61: Sell

62: Lighted sign contents

63: Poorly lit

64: Pretentious

67: Pigeon patter