1: Temp

4: Pat down

8: Hippies' homes

12: Grandmother, affectionately

13: Cornerstone datum

14: Some dairy sticks

16: Enthusiastic

17: Breathing space

18: Feather in one's cap

19: Furry friend

20: Brooding type?

21: Shrill bark

23: Jazz instrument, briefly

24: Plant problem

26: Hansom vehicle

28: Band blaster

30: Take wing

32: Pretentious

36: Nimble

39: Type of arch

41: Fabled race loser

42: Vichy water

43: Brought under control

45: Beefeater, e.g.

46: Kidders tickle them

48: Wise guy?

49: Highlander's hats

50: Head for the hills

51: Block passage through

52: Life story, for short

54: Seek favor with

56: Sudden burst of energy

60: Trite

63: Bounce up and down

65: Block up

67: Contend

68: Interlace

70: Is short and shy

72: 'I'll catch it!'

73: Spikes

74: Play like a puppy

75: Poor writer

76: Lavish party

77: 'Terrible' phase

78: Undivided

1: Contributed to an IRA

2: Come together

3: Good, ironically, in slang

4: A or B, in personalities

5: Many millennia

6: Spoil

7: Mouse, to an owl

8: Old man, to a kid

9: For ___ the marbles

10: '___ ex machina'

11: Body of an organism

12: Back of the neck

15: Birth certificate notation

20: Noah's second son

22: Very cold

25: Fifth calendar page

27: Scrooge's exclamation

29: Stewing vessel

30: Leg bone

31: Dirty look

33: Indian music

34: Hang decorations on

35: Deep desires

36: Lowly laborer

37: Sandbox plaything

38: Yokel

40: Wild (over)

44: Touch on the shoulders with a sword

47: Stitch up

49: Go over

51: Haunting sound

53: Mao follower?

55: Beyond beefy

57: Like a roc

58: As of

59: Humble

60: Temple student

61: Dogwood dropping

62: Carp cousin

64: Low-quality diamond

65: Test-driver's car

66: Ancient Egyptian emblems

69: Nov. 11 honoree

71: Arouse great enthusiasm

72: Electrical unit