1: Church recess

5: Popular side dishes

10: Band boxes?

14: 'Shall we?' response

15: Part of USNA

16: Bridges or Brummell

17: Biting midge

18: Compadre

19: Storm particles

20: Like someone sawing logs, so to speak

22: Drains

24: Chichi

26: Seamstress's sticker

27: Schlep

29: One wearing the apron strings

31: Legendary Himalayan creatures

34: Mao follower?

35: Survivalist's stash

37: Ten to a buck

39: Use UPS

41: Giant sequoias, e.g.

43: PDA entry

44: 'Loves me not' unit

46: Popeye's buddies

48: Backboard attachment

49: Showed a show again

51: Hang on to

52: Feed one's face

53: Batman foe Poison ___

54: Some ales

56: Crook

61: Gabby pets

64: 'Quiet!'

65: Rust, tarnish, or laughing gas

67: Ammonia compound

68: Get an eyeful

69: Less likely to offend

70: Curling surface

71: They're 16th of 26

72: Agonizes (over)

73: Give the slip to

1: Pond organism

2: Cons' confines

3: Cave deposit

4: Any acetate, chemically

5: Album insert

6: Flight from justice

7: Enthusiastic

8: Worker's reward

9: __ Joe: ground-beef-on-a-bun concoction

10: The Sixth Amendment prevents trials in it, in most cases

11: Nitty-gritty

12: Plate of glass

13: Froth

21: Inscribe with acid

23: Spun yarns

25: Decade units

27: Thpeak like thith

28: Introduce, with 'in'

30: One-in-a-million

32: Stager

33: Brown pigment

36: Took out

38: Acct. summary

40: Diocese subdivisions

42: Some clams

45: Bathe

47: Nimble

50: They may be nude

55: Thumbscrew ridge

56: Rough waters

57: Titanic

58: Sea spot

59: Stage direction

60: Jambalaya grain

62: Biddies

63: Rice drink

66: Condensation phenomenon