1: Cul-de-___ (dead end roads)

5: Imitate Popeye

9: Alka-Seltzer jingle starter

13: Drainpipe bend

14: Modern form of communication

16: Old wives' tales and such

17: Marginally sufficient

18: Orzo or ziti

19: Players may up it

20: Top hat accompaniment

22: Cheddar quality

24: Nightspots and nightsticks

26: Place for a feeling

27: Blood fluid

29: Folded egg dishes

33: Feed seed

34: Gaze fixedly

36: Gets ready

38: Responsibility

40: Reaches across

42: Run for

43: Sit

45: Swings around

47: Mai ___

48: Sonora shawls

50: Blades of choppers

52: '___ Town'

53: What you gotta have, in a 'Damn Yankees' song

54: Try to avert a strike

59: Upgrade weapons

62: Bug-eyed

63: Summer ermine

65: ___ cheese

66: Either of the racing Earnhardts

67: 'All for one and one for all,' e.g.

68: Meadows

69: Sums up

70: Sit before a lens

71: Slips

1: Acct. summary

2: Bailiwick

3: Lampoon

4: Incantations

5: One's good name, briefly

6: Accumulate

7: Ambassadorial fashion accessory

8: Sandwich bread

9: Hothouse containers

10: Unaccompanied

11: Table scraps

12: They're 16th of 26

15: Uppercase

21: Addition problems

23: Paper starter

25: Nutty

27: Palinromic ship deck

28: Freeway divisions

29: Tests that allow talking

30: Maître d's offering

31: Prohibition adherent

32: Hunter's weapon

35: Church recess

37: Goes downhill fast?

39: Skinflints

41: Withered

44: ___ monde (society)

46: Glide high

49: Rainbow maker

51: Tweeter output

53: Preliminary races

54: Zippo

55: Quaint oath

56: Olympian's quest

57: Capping

58: Pooch in 'The Wizard of Oz'

60: Type of admiral

61: Tousle

64: Water temperature 'gauge'