1: Titleholder

6: Crescent-shaped mountain range

10: Bellhop's burdens

14: Problem for Jonah

15: Dagger handle

16: Earthenware jar

17: Weighed down

18: Train for a title fight

19: Lick

20: Keyboard bar

22: Go postal

24: Blubber

25: Branchlet

27: Courtwear

29: Evaluates

33: Remote room?

34: Exemplar of rapid growth

35: Sushi wrap

37: Rural landing place

41: Grassland

42: Berlin's 'Blue ___'

44: Time-wasting bother

45: Jack of nursery rhyme

48: On cloud nine

49: Blended-family prefix

50: Dandy

52: Scarcity

54: Nuns

58: Unaccompanied

59: Peak stat

60: Nurses, as a drink

62: Built before shipped

66: Cat call

68: Glide high

70: Color of a cloudless sky

71: Like a dangerous wire

72: Speck of dust

73: Job extras

74: Sailed right through

75: Kane's dying thought

76: Lovers' lane event

1: Night birds

2: Sound of a hard smack

3: Zippo

4: Voted in

5: Begins again

6: Starts of sneezes

7: ChapStick target

8: Isn't rash

9: Threadlike part

10: Bounce up and down

11: Smart guy

12: Dirty look

13: Woodland deity

21: They may be calculated

23: They're 16th of 26

26: Nerds

28: Aardvark's tidbit

29: Piercing tools

30: Leak slowly

31: Cauterize

32: More duplicitous

36: Kind of code or colony

38: Miles per hour, e.g.

39: Roman date

40: Orchestra that plays light classical music

43: Barbershop band?

46: Sternward

47: Corn-growing regions

49: One suffering from hay fever

51: Light benders

53: Deeply absorbed

54: Ballroom dance of Brazil

55: Intestinal

56: Warehouse

57: Thread holder

61: Stuff to the gills

63: Unrestrained anger

64: Cumbersome boats

65: Gold medal-winning

67: Tie the knot

69: Pinot Noir or Merlot