1: Blackest part of a shadow

6: Mischief-makers

10: Possible prince?

14: Stuck in the mud

15: Rioter's illegal take

16: Far from ruddy

17: Proper niche

18: Soft drink nut

19: Comportment

20: Is in the arms of Morpheus

22: Softens, as lights

24: Barfly

25: Uneasy tingling

27: Crush the spirit

29: Album insert

33: Verbalize

34: Float

35: 'Inhabitant' of some tequila bottles

37: Fancy party site, sometimes

41: Tune

42: 'Ciao' in Chihuahua

44: Tint

45: Towheaded

48: Chimney sweep's target

49: Over the ___

50: Chimpanzee's hoot

52: Like some workers

54: Cigar with square-cut ends

58: Cocktail hour assortment

59: Ran in front

60: Dawn and on

62: Do over, as a backsplash

66: Overwhelmed

68: Eeyore's friend

70: Golfer's nonplaying wife, facetiously

71: Final prelim

72: Give the slip to

73: Choose the window instead of the aisle?

74: British baby buggy

75: High point

76: Strikes from a proof

1: Baseball VIPs

2: Coffee grinder

3: Scottish hillside

4: Proof of purchase

5: Experts

6: Family

7: Temper

8: Salk's conquest

9: Impresses, as on the mind

10: 28,800 seconds before midnight

11: Paycheck booster

12: Some dairy sticks

13: Decent chaps

21: Unstressed vowel

23: Fix a hot dog?

26: Stove covers

28: Scandinavian rug

29: Mop up

30: Tooth's partner

31: Curly coif

32: Chamber pieces

36: Made bovine noises

38: 'Leading With My ___' (Leno book)

39: Hawaiian dance

40: Drop a dime on

43: Flight component

46: Easter preceder?

47: Armageddon

49: Antagonistic

51: Hullabaloo

53: Released, as lava

54: Bracelet fastener

55: Axman, e.g.

56: Plant problem

57: Assemblage of people

61: Narrow margin of victory

63: Object of pagan worship

64: Run gracefully

65: Merino mamas

67: Lower, as lights

69: Evil spell