1: Begin blooming

4: 'Run to ___' (Bobby Vee hit)

7: Place for a rubber duck

14: Painkiller

16: Land area

17: Narrow bands

18: Cover a point?

19: Mugs

20: Miami cagers

21: Cauterize

22: President pro ___

24: Steelers' legend Bradshaw

28: Sow's sustenance

30: Poorly lit

33: Bounder

34: Important

36: Potter's purchase

38: Incidentally, in Netspeak

39: Woodstock wear

42: Get nosy

44: Bird with an eerie call

45: Tint

46: Inning enders

48: Malt liquor yeast

50: Wacky

53: Bumbling

55: Talk foolishly

57: Put into piles

59: Gardener's coil

62: Japanese warrior caste

64: Rhythmic pattern

67: Get going

68: Wifely

69: Values highly

70: Picks up

71: Stain, as a fabric

72: Verbalize

1: Receives pleasure

2: Loosens

3: Kind of fin

4: Ballyhoo

5: Slow to act

6: Made a shambles of (with ''up'')

7: Celebration

8: Feel compassion

9: Pick up the check

10: Piece

11: Feline, to Tweety

12: Utterance of revulsion

13: Apiary occupant

15: Strip

23: Stonework

25: Pulls a heist

26: Same-old-same-old

27: Archery bow wood

29: Major pain, slangily

31: Nonsense

32: Partner of kin

35: Lump of clay

37: Bright, as a color

39: Memory morsel

40: Constricting snake

41: Ascertain dimensions

42: Polynesian paste

43: Turn tail

47: Orb

49: Accumulated

51: Long suits

52: Emotional shock

54: Gin companion

56: Fall guy

58: Fuddled

60: 'Flee, feline!'

61: They get into sushi

63: Perth pal

64: Bossy's chew

65: Fireman's tool

66: Morse code component