1: Assist larcenously

5: 1990 Best Actor Jeremy

10: Decision made at home?

14: In-box item

15: Keep on dunking

16: Ball of yarn

17: Held

19: Unaccompanied

20: Kickoffs

21: Takes advice from

22: One who abandons the cause

26: Prickly plants

30: Peremptory demand

34: 'Farewell, François!'

35: Scratched (out)

36: Had a bite

37: Chairwomen, e.g.

39: Liveliness

42: Musclebound brute

43: Fluish feeling

47: King or queen

48: Teatime tools

51: Church recesses

52: Perfumes

54: Morning rouser

57: Beehive and bouffant

62: Places

63: Gymnast's specialty, perhaps

66: Cats' prey

67: Like a roc

68: Festive affair

69: 'Them' insects

70: Bottoms

71: Hunk of cheese

1: BB's and bullets

2: Bridges or Brummell

3: Give off

4: A whole lot

5: Ticked off

6: CD of an old LP, e.g.

7: Have stuff

8: Wedding page word

9: Avg.

10: Cornea's companion

11: Burn soother

12: ___ off (repel)

13: Merino mamas

18: Dullness

21: Line of clothing

23: Man in a lodge

24: Map abbr.

25: Lunar effect

26: Death ___ (poisonous plant)

27: Rewrite for a film, say

28: Mulled beverage

29: Afternoon brew

31: Fruity desserts

32: Handy

33: Parcels (out)

38: Lacking, along the Loire

40: Equilibrium

41: Humdinger

44: 'Golly!'

45: Ossuary

46: Legal right to property

49: Mountaintop homes

50: Mao follower?

53: Merits, as compensation

54: ___ mater

55: Filet mignon source

56: Dept. store shopper's privilege

58: Shoddy clothing

59: ___ citizenship

60: Earthenware jar

61: Thrusting blow

63: Tree fluid

64: Some gametes

65: Hour div.