1: Balaam's mount

4: Celebration

8: Unrestrained anger

12: Group of three

13: 'Aeneid' city

14: Charged particle

16: Vital post on a ship

17: Envelop

18: First head of Homeland Security

19: Chips in a chip

21: Scratched (out)

23: Nursing need

24: Used to be

25: Glasgow girl

27: Photo ___ (campaign events)

29: It can be a sacrifice

30: Dr. No, to Bond

31: Like a wallflower

34: Union of old

37: Low-quality diamond

38: Garden tool

39: Make a sweater, perhaps

40: Brown paper container

41: Gaucho's cattle catcher

42: Tag players

43: Fossey's focus

45: Lines of work

47: Water temperature 'gauge'

48: Tricked

49: Like most colleges

50: George W. Bush, to George H.W. Bush

51: Buddhist leader

52: Sound of a fan

55: Stinger target

58: Stretch across

60: ID item

62: To bury

64: 'No ifs, ___, or buts!'

66: Skunk's funk

67: Olive-green bird

68: Travel smoothly

69: It may zoom in or out

70: Limited time

71: Neat as a pin

72: She's a deer

1: Combat site

2: Delta deposits

3: Unspecified amount

4: Incidentally, in Netspeak

5: Scene from 'Cops,' e.g.

6: Wets thoroughly

7: Ballyhoo

8: A long way off

9: Squadrons

10: Bridle path excursion

11: Meditation method

12: Melt

15: Court divider

20: Turn on an axis

22: One way out

26: Aardvark's tidbit

28: Furry friend

29: Byte fraction

30: Muddlement

31: Wearing wedgies, say

32: Logical flaw

33: Senate votes

34: Revue segment

35: Not fooled by

36: Tight gripper

37: ___-relief

40: Wager

41: Good, ironically, in slang

43: In the past

44: Soprano Lily

45: Quarterback Brady of the Patriots

46: Sow's opposite

49: Outspoken

50: More dry and withered

51: Island near Molokai

52: Bullriding venue

53: Square things

54: ___ d'oeuvre (appetizer)

55: N.L. Central, e.g.

56: Single thing

57: Contaminant-free

59: Days gone by

61: Cargo compartment

63: Nice handle

65: Devious