1: Matter makers

6: Behaves

10: Unused portion

14: Coin of Nepal or Pakistan

15: Word before opera or dish

16: Piece of strategy

17: Become accustomed

18: Happy time?

19: Stole stuff

20: Cease's partner

22: Barbershop sound

24: Menlo Park monogram

25: Waterproof cover

27: Film snippets

29: One way to get a word in

33: Map abbr.

34: Spun yarns

35: Cass Elliot, once

37: Whacks

41: Grassland

42: Blind parts

44: Senate vote

45: Safety device

48: Eminem's '8 ___'

49: Nerd's friend

50: Dandy

52: Generosity

54: Nuns

58: Cauterize

59: Wrath

60: Spinning toys

62: Cuban dance tunes

66: Starch from palms

68: Steel or virgin follower

70: Gas meter, for one

71: Capping

72: Blossom from a bulb

73: Come after

74: For fear that

75: Fruit for flavoring gin

76: Discourage

1: Like the Atacama

2: Ditty

3: Important work

4: Deserved

5: Teetertotter

6: Can opener?

7: Murmurs tenderly

8: Egg on

9: More nimble

10: LP measure

11: Ruling class

12: Navigational aid

13: Kiddies

21: Adorns

23: Butter units

26: Religious song

28: Stitch up

29: Silly pair?

30: South Beach, e.g.

31: Paraphernalia

32: Modern form of communication

36: Bodybuilder Charles

38: Motion-carrying votes

39: Golf ball pegs

40: Rice drink

43: More dry and withered

46: Sternward

47: Browning of pages of verse, for example

49: Relevant

51: Moves in a predatory manner

53: Measured

54: Rugmaking fiber

55: Ticked off

56: Western lilies

57: Go bad

61: Fly alone

63: Failure

64: Fluish feeling

65: Person of vision

67: Choose

69: Old soap ingredient