1: McIntosh or Granny Smith

6: Brutally frank

9: Mop up

13: Practiced

14: Tap output

15: Clove or cinnamon

16: Turned white

17: Small amount

18: Man on a mission

19: Aseptic

21: Small, pointed beards

23: Senate vote

24: Lick

25: Picked up a lap

28: Las Vegas rollers

30: Brief summaries, briefly

35: Curly coif

37: Large predatory birds of myth

39: Safety device

40: False witness

41: Flight component

43: Get ready to shine?

44: Has a go at

46: 'Natch!'

47: Not on schedule

48: Taste and smell

50: Appear

52: In mourning

53: Thorny flower

55: Zoological duct

57: Alexander Calder art form

61: Unified whole

65: Bête ___

66: Stain, as a fabric

68: From the nearest star

69: Bodybuilder Charles

70: Many, many moons

71: Remove graphite or graffiti

72: Sit before a lens

73: Same-old-same-old

74: Smack down

1: PC software

2: City map

3: Fortune

4: Skeptical

5: Circulated, in a way

6: Miles per hour, e.g.

7: In the manner of

8: Pie slice

9: Tiff

10: Off the mark

11: Piece of property

12: Quilting parties

15: Torrents

20: Hibernation locales

22: Crew implement

24: Since

25: Popeye's buddies

26: Eager, to the max

27: It's a drag on a gown

29: Basic beds

31: Letters on a keyboard key

32: Diva's repertoire

33: Orzo or ziti

34: Radar reading

36: Hematite and galena

38: Foal's father

42: Superman who was a super man

45: Annual October event, with 'the'

49: Helios, to the Romans

51: Propaganda target

54: Kosher meal

56: Big blow

57: Go postal

58: Pooch in 'The Wizard of Oz'

59: Feels poorly

60: Scottish hillside

61: Lady's man

62: Jai ___

63: Bringing up the rear

64: Family follower?

67: Not the other guy