1: Chinese house idol

5: ___ d'oeuvre (appetizer)

9: Weight

13: Stage direction

14: Curved moldings

16: Gumbo vegetable

17: Upgrade the decor

18: Dentist's tool

19: Watermelon beginning

20: Prepared to propose

22: Arrangements, as of opposed mirrors, giving the effect of long vistas

24: Barely flows

26: Many, many moons

27: Good shot, in horseshoes

29: Constant, as a liar

33: Trite

34: Stray from the herd

36: Grammies

38: Heels

40: Muscle

42: Bay or day preceder

43: Bay

45: Kosher meal

47: Mai ___

48: Shenanigans

50: Sore spot

52: St. Louis gridder

53: Andes pack animal

54: Winning flex for Mr. Universe?

59: Word with light or episode

62: Make a sweater, perhaps

63: Blow a fuse, say

65: No longer green

66: Emulate a couch potato

67: Poorer, as excuses go

68: Undemocratic leader

69: Hammered obliquely

70: Colorful parrot

71: Vital post on a ship

1: Creep

2: Whom the yoke's on?

3: One way to ride a horse

4: About to be fenced, maybe

5: Bricklayer's item

6: Grimm goons

7: Curb

8: Starter starter?

9: Shouts of praise

10: Scratched (out)

11: On the house

12: Insignificant amounts

15: More duplicitous

21: Miffed, with 'off'

23: Bird with an eerie call

25: Lions and Tigers and Bears

27: Places

28: Animal with twisted horns

29: Movie theaters

30: Give attention

31: Erase old data from a disk

32: Chocolate source

35: Main point

37: Hurt, as a knee

39: Placed out of sight

41: Wisher's place

44: Duct product

46: Sow's opposite

49: Press on

51: Sully

53: Ostracized person

54: Revue segment

55: Annul

56: Fortune

57: Spoken

58: Akebono's sport

60: October birthstone

61: Limited time

64: 'Don't give up!'