1: '___ is life!'

5: Dentist's directive

10: Eyes

14: Gumbo vegetable

15: Old-womanish

16: Irritate

17: Defectiveness

19: Jai ___

20: Maintain

21: Sincerely zealous

23: Go down

24: Energy unit

26: Part of a journey

27: Visionaries

29: Chooses

33: Alka-Seltzer jingle starter

36: Scatters seeds

38: Popular search engine

39: Lassoer's cord

40: Trades

42: Dressmaker's tuck

43: Group of eight

45: Blended-family prefix

46: Merino mamas

47: 1970s dance clubs

49: Blackthorn shrubs

51: Strike

52: Cut off

53: Highlander's cap

56: Griddle alternative

60: Literally, 'something worn' in Japanese

62: Take on cargo

63: Uprooted

66: Spots

67: Malevolent pachyderm

68: Lion's pride

69: 'That ___ it!'

70: Operate the rudder

71: Hgts.

1: Lobby furniture

2: Imperial decree

3: Pie part

4: Golfer Irwin

5: She takes orders

6: Quaint lodging

7: Fade away

8: Apart from this

9: Swap shop transaction

10: Fruity drinks

11: Butler, for Gable

12: Preconception

13: Cat's eye, sometimes

18: Family follower?

22: Trust, with 'on'

25: Waxes

27: Silenced

28: Whacks

30: Mouthful of tobacco

31: Ripped apart

32: Tipplers

33: Cattle poker

34: Places

35: Goes for

37: Turn of work

41: Twice as frightful

44: Slave away

48: Takes the tiller

50: Multigenerational story

53: Add up

54: About

55: Dorian and aeolian, for two

56: Kane's dying thought

57: It's a bout done

58: ___ fixe

59: Harness race pace

61: Cass Elliot, once

64: Historical period

65: Scheduled