1: Tease mercilessly

4: Butter square

7: Pepper spray alternative

11: Either of the racing Earnhardts

12: State of unconsciousness

13: Earthenware

15: View from the top?

17: Gentle pool sound

18: Part of a costume, perhaps

19: They come in shades

21: Attend

22: George W. Bush, to George H.W. Bush

23: 'Shall we?' response

24: Quarterback's call

27: Lowlife

28: 'Praying' insect

30: Dummy

33: 'Flee, fly!'

36: Russian villa

38: In the near future

39: Aardvark's tidbit

40: Female domestic

41: Sailor's sleeping space

43: Tiniest protest

45: Boulevard liners

46: Ale containers

48: Have stuff

50: Neck line?

51: Destiny

53: Japanese honorific

56: In the past

58: Hand lender

60: Teamwork deterrent

61: Dance with a dip?

64: Red quartz

66: Sales pitch

67: Civil unrest

68: Players may up it

69: Word before opera or dish

70: Ossuary

71: Capital of Phoenix?

1: Boom box, e.g.

2: Straighten, as wheels

3: Obtain

4: Score unit

5: Accumulate

6: Story by Chaucer

7: Swab

8: For ___ the marbles

9: Record store section

10: Life of Riley

11: Morning moistures

12: Doctrines

14: '___ Loves You'

16: Earthenware jar

20: Resort hotel

25: 'Not only that ...'

26: Pollen producer

27: Position Bill Russell played for the Celtics

28: Speck of dust

29: Leveling wedge

30: Smidge

31: Kind of column

32: Investor's concern

34: Chance occurrences

35: Undivided

37: NPR has none

42: Get going

44: Powerful

47: Utmost

49: Used to be

51: Natural ability

52: Cookwear

53: Historic river of Paris

54: Tiny type size

55: What the fourth little piggy had

56: Balaam's mount

57: Intervals

59: Non-clashing color

62: Red or Yellow

63: Mont Blanc, for one

65: Full circle, on the track