1: Tree fluid

4: Sailor's greeting

8: Off course

12: Rational

13: Soft drink

14: Church doctrine

16: Creatures of habit?

17: Drudge

18: In a melancholy manner

19: Intense

21: Vexes

23: English poet Alexander

24: Place for P.E.

25: Beefeater and Bombay

27: 'To each ___ own'

29: Keep in suspense

30: Container

31: Resort hotel

34: Tattered state

37: Informer

38: 'Hee ___'

39: Don

40: Repetitive computer program

41: ___ tax

42: Eyebrow shape

43: Sooty shaft

45: Reprimands

47: 'Whew!'

48: Auction offering

49: Make academic

50: Temp

51: Wise man

52: French wine

55: High spd. phone line

58: Read quickly

60: Pilotless plane

62: Shooting game

64: Geishas' sashes

66: Keeps from squeaking

67: Obsolete repro

68: New Mexico necktie

69: Utter loudly

70: Libel, for instance

71: Thrusting blow

72: Verbalize

1: Smart-mouthed

2: Per ___

3: Pain in the neck

4: Pharaohs' symbol of power

5: Garden work

6: Tabu emissions

7: American, in Ireland

8: Rm. coolers

9: Does seasonal mall work

10: Upgrade the decor

11: Puppy's plaint

12: Glitch

15: Stain, as a fabric

20: Quaint oath

22: Ankle-knee connector

26: November winners

28: Cartridge contents

29: '___ Town Too' (1981 hit for James Taylor and J.D. Souther)

30: Byte fraction

31: Wearing wedgies, say

32: Far from ruddy

33: Piercing tools

34: Mop up

35: Long lunch?

36: Sort of blue

37: Dr. No, to Bond

40: Otherwise

41: Set as rivals

43: Winter ailment

44: Wimbledon hits

45: Minor player, so to speak

46: Broke ground, perhaps

49: Yellow paper

50: Betray contempt

51: Peasant shoe

52: Unveiling comment

53: Decorative work

54: Digs of twigs

55: Mao follower?

56: Revue segment

57: Test-driver's car

59: Corn cores

61: Pulls a heist

63: Little one

65: Turn on the waterworks