1: Spartan and ruthless

6: ___ mater

10: Down in the dumps

14: Soft palate part

15: Lobster and beluga products

16: Sawbucks

17: McCoy, to Captain Kirk

18: Vintners' vessels

19: Be on standby

20: Big celebration for a high schooler

22: Members' payments

24: Map abbr.

25: Golf ball pegs

27: More harsh

29: Perfumes

33: Attend

34: Part of ROM

35: Skin designs, for short

37: Movie greats

41: Campaigned for office

42: Puts the kibosh on

44: Kind of talk

45: Manuscript markings

48: Cat's eye, sometimes

49: Tolerate

50: Mont Blanc, for one

52: With joy

54: Kind of relations

58: False witness

59: Ring toss item?

60: Paper starter

62: Country resident

66: Table scraps

68: Bombay garment

70: Dweebish

71: Pretty good

72: Dubai VIP

73: Makes level

74: Sailors

75: Identical

76: Shooting game

1: Centers of activity

2: Declare openly

3: Ancient character

4: Came down in pellets

5: Speed up

6: Gallery objects

7: Bright, as a color

8: They help people choose sides

9: They're good to hold

10: Incidentally, in Netspeak

11: Take lessons in

12: Come together

13: Any acetate, chemically

21: The Amish, the Shakers, et al.

23: Goes out with

26: Pants' parts

28: Out of work? (abbr.)

29: Slips

30: Place for the catbird?

31: Rational

32: Mink wrap

36: Tell, as secrets

38: Mocked by imitating

39: Down-to-earth

40: Nimble

43: Flight component

46: Feline, to Tweety

47: A pink one means trouble

49: Violently frenzied

51: Obeys a comma

53: Razzes

54: 'Phooey!'

55: Arctic jacket

56: Rose oil

57: Andes pack animal

61: Ever so proper

63: Test choice

64: ___ fixe

65: Dermatologist's concern

67: Methodology (abbr.)

69: Wrath