1: Lurid

4: One working with Linux, e.g.

8: Upsilon follower

11: Qualities of the conceited

13: Braid

15: Persuade, with 'over'

16: Buddhist leader

17: Bad-tempered

18: Curling surface

19: Go with the flow

21: Some trumpeters

23: Tide type

25: More than slow, in retail

26: Small birds

30: Fixed part of an electric motor

34: Ring toss item?

35: Kiosk

37: Gaze fixedly

38: Bit to split

40: Bend a bit

42: Reduces in intensity

43: Let go

45: Blubbery water

47: Like cherries jubilee

48: Plays quoits

50: Fragments

52: Lacking, along the Loire

54: 'Total Recall' planet

55: Kind of garden

60: Boozes

63: Bug-eyed

64: Rolls down the runway

66: Ruing the run, perhaps

67: Used to be

68: Small aperture

69: Meditation method

70: '___ me think about it'

71: Glitch

72: Logic circuit element

1: Do the work of a pipefitter, maybe

2: Emulsifying agent

3: Ones whose proposals are seconded

4: At bats

5: Turn on an axis

6: Count's counterpart

7: All stirred up

8: Annoyance

9: Solving aid

10: Printing liquids

12: Better protected

14: Varieties

15: Pass imperceptibly from one shade to another

20: Sailors

22: Milliner's stock

24: Flower sites

26: Swindle

27: Barbecue area

28: Unit of power

29: Blackthorn shrubs

31: Add 15 to this for a cup

32: Make a circle around

33: Musical symbols

36: Deal with a shylock

39: 1982 Grandmaster Flash hit 'The ___'

41: Ever so proper

44: University bigwig

46: Tiff

49: Peevish states

51: Dull, as text

53: Improvises like Ella

55: Blubber

56: Type of arch

57: Libel, for instance

58: Neural fiber

59: Peru's capital

61: Thus

62: Place for the catbird?

65: Droop