1: Musclebound brute

4: Tropical fruit

9: Honeydew, for one

14: Crafty sort

15: Basketry twig

16: Place to call home

17: Silly goose

20: Get ready to shine?

21: Trellis piece

22: Certifies

26: Sports injuries, often

31: 'Sure thing!'

32: NBA target

34: Whispered words

35: Learned Muslim

37: Upbeat

38: Like many stump speeches

42: False witness

43: Uses a pesticide or fixes software

44: Wretched

47: Irritate

48: Churchill's title

51: Red spots

53: Synthetic rubber ingredient

55: Indian housemaid

57: Knock preceder

58: Moving

65: Syringes, for short

66: Like a roc

67: Undivided

68: Snide

69: Took out

70: Pinot Noir or Merlot

1: Brawl

2: Civil

3: Occupies the real world

4: Sailor, in slang

5: Employ

6: Tune

7: Docs for doggies

8: Seed coverings

9: Servers' boss, when followed by d'

10: Fall off, as the tide

11: Tennis shot

12: Pindar product

13: Court divider

18: Apiary occupant

19: Intervals

23: Cold-shoulder

24: Related

25: Cube or sphere, e.g.

27: Lots, sometimes

28: Hulks pump it

29: Digs of twigs

30: Pig's digs

33: Less colorful

35: Fillies, when grown

36: Kings of the road

38: Take digs at

39: Indian king

40: Leave a job

41: Really hard on the eyes

42: Flight from justice

45: Elegant and fashionable

46: Secretarial fill-in

48: Highest in rank

49: Recite without modulation

50: Curbed, with 'in'

52: Healthy lunch choice

54: Wharf pest

56: Give birth to

58: Pot ingredient?

59: Scandinavian rug

60: Liable

61: Logic circuit element

62: Diddly-squat

63: Menlo Park monogram

64: 'Not only that ...'