1: Heavy blow

6: Starter starter?

10: Keep in suspense

14: Ear-related

15: Get better

16: Listen to

17: Thick

18: Besides

19: Masher's comeuppance, maybe

20: SWAT team specialists

23: Player's peg

24: She's a deer

25: Bird balker

31: Nursery purchase

35: Refer indirectly

36: Spider-Man slings them

38: White Stripes, for one

39: Archaeology venue, at times

40: Reed of 'From Here to Eternity'

42: Extinct flightless bird

43: Cartridge contents

44: Withered

45: Boston Marathon prize

47: Shooting game

49: Decency deficiency

51: Bananas, nuts, or crackers

53: Faux follower

54: Understanding

61: Stage direction

62: Look happy

63: 66, for one

66: Flute or saxophone variety

67: Stable mate

68: Opera hero, usually

69: Pricey

70: Stored to develop aroma, as tobacco

71: Much teen talk

1: Small amount

2: Tint

3: Java vessels

4: Jamie Farr's breakout series

5: Like some skirts

6: Lathe, e.g.

7: They get into sushi

8: Eyelid attachment

9: Deluge

10: Lodge

11: Up to the task

12: Warm, in a sense

13: Swindles

21: Withdraw

22: 'Clumsy me!'

25: Garments worn by the Ganges

26: Fall sound

27: Much the same

28: Turn tail

29: Titleholder

30: 'My Country Versus Me' author ___ Ho Lee

32: Be taken with

33: Michelangelo's 'David,' and others

34: Implements

37: Shampoo scenter

41: Ending of many WWW addresses

42: Pester for payment

44: Name on the marquee

46: States confidently

48: Buyer, as in 'Buyer, beware'

50: Inaugurated

52: Church holding

54: Part of ROM

55: Drive train element

56: Sandwich bread

57: Mountain goat's perch

58: 'Spenser: For ___' (Urich series)

59: Caroling song

60: Sandwich fish

64: Bon or won follower

65: Energy unit