1: Get ready for a fight

4: Ties up the phone

8: 'Quadrophenia' band, with 'The'

11: Machine with a shuttle

13: Some family reunion attenders

15: Melt

16: Speck of dust

17: Fabric fold

18: Rip-roaring review

19: Offensive smile

21: Assigned authority

23: Six-stringed fiddle

25: Peachy

26: It's an abomination

30: Upshot

34: Wager

35: Hibernation locales

37: Generous sort

38: Panama hat part

40: Well-groomed

42: Isinglass

43: Egg-shaped

45: Yards of grass

47: Guiding principle

48: Cared for

50: Ski resort's wish

52: Dressmaker's tuck

54: Lure

55: More superficial

60: Diving bird

63: Fabled race loser

64: They're calling, in 'Danny Boy'

66: Trampled (on)

67: Goals

68: Insinuatingly spoken

69: Keep in suspense

70: Unproductive

71: Garbage barge

72: Place (a bet)

1: Help for the hapless

2: Sufficient space

3: What makes one tick

4: Talk foolishly

5: Word heard on December 31

6: Joint with a cap

7: Emulate a hunter

8: 'I beg your pardon?'

9: Give birth to

10: Was in the red

12: Have coming

14: Operate the rudder

15: Window over a door

20: Former Chancellor Helmut

22: Turned to the right

24: Meadows

26: Monk's superior

27: 'You've got some ___!'

28: Coffee grinder

29: Geometry calculations

31: One-sided

32: Close to home

33: Large fishing net

36: Stitched

39: Core group?

41: Radio dial

44: Trade agreement

46: Booty

49: Hints of rain

51: Long, narrow estuary

53: Matched pair

55: Roe source

56: 'Aquarius' musical

57: Word before ant or brat

58: Multigenerational story

59: Upgrade the decor

61: ___ fide

62: Antsy

65: Stitch up