1: Marital antonym of 'better'

6: Wager

9: Wearing wedgies, say

13: Ease off

14: Palindromic preposition

15: Onion and leek relative

16: Chef, at times

17: Japanese honorific

18: Kidney-related

19: Wave maker

21: Wrap tightly

23: Slim swimmer

24: University bigwig

25: Winter ailment

28: Thorny flower

30: Given a new look

35: Not on schedule

37: Neck wraps

39: 1996 Geoffrey Rush film

40: Listen to

41: Garments worn by the Ganges

43: Bailiwick

44: More dry and withered

46: Hit with hailstones

47: Look narrowly

48: Playground staples

50: Sow's sustenance

52: Unproductive

53: Shaker contents

55: Wharf pest

57: T.S. Eliot, to Ezra Pound

61: Determination

65: Should, with 'to'

66: Musclebound brute

68: Oktoberfest souvenir

69: Earthenware

70: Dauphin's denial

71: Lightened up

72: Loafer inserts

73: Pose for a pic

74: Iditarod entries

1: Money rolls

2: Article that may list survivors

3: Sort of blue

4: Inscribed pillar

5: Twice as spooky

6: Gold medal-winning

7: Long time

8: On pins and needles

9: Let fall

10: Rear or deer

11: Football's contour

12: Proofreader's mark

15: Frasier's family

20: Neatniks' opposites

22: Mindless card game

24: Most precious

25: Dentist's advice

26: Soup can wrapper

27: Holding areas for newcomers?

29: Word before opera or dish

31: Bloke

32: Broadcast

33: Betray contempt

34: All choked up

36: Possessing peepers

38: Window part

42: Warehouse

45: Adjusts, as a trip counter

49: Droop

51: Annie Oakleys

54: Shows partiality

56: Add up

57: Magic show exclamation

58: Have the final say

59: Get an eyeful

60: Just one of those things

61: Monthly payment, for many

62: Add-on for Congo

63: Contended

64: Budgets make them meet

67: Polynesian paste