1: Resort hotel

4: Armed conflicts

8: Lyric poem

13: Feline, to Tweety

14: Alka-Seltzer jingle starter

15: Aspiring doc's course

16: Contractor's calculation

18: Letting up on

19: Comparison word

20: Testcase bungled?

22: Cutting commentary

26: Browning of pages of verse, for example

27: Pulls some strings?

29: ___ mater

33: What changing the f-stop changes

36: Basketry twig

37: Bar

38: Soft-shell clam

41: Aardvark's tidbit

42: Dull, as text

44: Petrels and pelicans

46: On cloud nine

47: Wrinkle remover

49: On vacation, perhaps

51: Has a calming influence on

55: Crackers for soup

59: Camp sight

60: Light a fire under

61: Make-believe

65: Fit snugly one inside another

66: Mystique

67: Take to court

68: Stuffs to the gills

69: Person of vision

70: Slim swimmer

1: Manuscript markings

2: Turkish bigwig

3: Rose oil

4: Secretary's stat

5: In the manner of

6: Nonsense

7: What some writers work on

8: Remove graphite or graffiti

9: They were spent in Spain

10: Fail to include

11: Fender flaw

12: Upper hand

15: Cancún coins

17: Acquire, as a debt

21: Musclebound brute

23: Unable to sit still

24: Slattern

25: Stable mate

28: Stop

30: False witness

31: Sew up

32: They may be liberal

33: PC software

34: Contaminant-free

35: Black, to a bard

36: Formed into a circle

39: GI's diner

40: Life of Riley

43: Court matter

45: Ticked off

47: Having divisions, as a window

48: 'The Catcher in the ___'

50: ___ up (gets smart)

52: On pins and needles

53: Come after

54: Iron alloy

55: Lacking, along the Loire

56: Bailiwick

57: Popular ABC adventure series

58: Hot tubs

62: Cry over spilled milk

63: Palindromic preposition

64: Ancient mariner