1: Church recesses

6: Time-wasting bother

9: Has lumbago

14: Curriculum ___

15: A long way off

16: Scold

17: Restating

19: Line dance

20: Statistics

21: Tie the knot

22: Metal-fusing alloy

23: Heartburn cause, often

25: Employ

26: Flabbergasted

31: Hearth heap

33: Sound of a fan

34: Burn soother

35: Electrical unit

36: Brooding type?

39: Job for the Blues Brothers

41: Carp constantly

42: Sit before a lens

44: Bananas, nuts, or crackers

46: Quartz varieties

48: Modern writers' aids

52: A white one is small

53: Unwanted sound

54: Luggage item

57: Feline, to Tweety

58: Veggies in a pod

62: Unsuitable

63: Wretched

65: Throw water on

66: Aardvark's tidbit

67: Responded to reveille

68: Finito

69: 'Sure thing!'

70: Opera hero, usually

1: Enthusiastic

2: Sandwich bread

3: Leave in, to an editor

4: Otalgia

5: Red or Yellow

6: Off the subject

7: More first-rate

8: Ending of many WWW addresses

9: Confront boldly

10: Clean drinking water helps prevent it

11: Rear or deer

12: Upper hand

13: Cauterize

18: Ann, to Abby

22: Japanese dish

24: 'Quiet!'

26: The things there

27: Tease mercilessly

28: Arm bones

29: Brat's stocking stuffer

30: Vats for frats?

31: Band boxes?

32: Word after union or comparison

37: Show host

38: 'Uh uh'

40: 'Here ___ nothing!'

43: Oval

45: Tooth component

47: Get ready

49: Tipped to one side

50: Doesn't have to work hard

51: You don't need a license to fly it

54: __ infra: see below

55: In the near future

56: Speak well of

59: Black, to a bard

60: Besides

61: Person of vision

63: Fifth calendar page

64: Wharf pest