1: Pastrami places

6: Christmas trio

10: Blockheads

14: Ooze out

15: Whom the yoke's on?

16: Act the butterfly

17: Poorer, as excuses go

18: Candle part

19: Vegan's staple

20: Handicap

22: Goes downhill fast?

24: Lincoln loc.

25: Nursing need

27: Guru's goal

29: Accentuates

33: Obtain

34: Veggies in a pod

35: Spot and Fido

37: Closet section

41: Van Gogh's love offering

42: Puts the kibosh on

44: Winner at Caesar's palace?

45: Bottom-of-the-barrel stuff

48: Owl's utterance

49: Hit hard

50: Chimpanzee's hoot

52: Activities for some activists

54: Hard-hat

58: Sailors

59: 'Shogun' sash

60: Data transmission rate

62: Utterly destroys, as an automobile

66: Dull, resonant sound

68: Waiter's tote

70: Permissible

71: Antsy

72: Really dislike

73: Knight stick

74: Appear

75: Deli side

76: Enjoy a bed

1: Home of heroes?

2: Course climax

3: Hunk

4: Cooks up

5: Annual October event, with 'the'

6: Trim the turf

7: World War II partnership

8: Tropical lizard

9: Pressman's activity

10: Many a time

11: Flying solo

12: Piccolo alternatives

13: Theater floor litter

21: Grates upon

23: Goes out with

26: Grinders and choppers

28: Utmost

29: Stepped on it

30: Duct product

31: Exceptional

32: Bend a bit

36: Wear with pride

38: Holiday nights

39: Spirited air

40: Is the right size

43: Summer ermine

46: Slimy stuff

47: Gather on a surface

49: Inhuman

51: Overgrown wastelands

53: Fishes, in a way

54: Drop places?

55: Place to call home

56: Spree

57: Of the countryside

61: Statistics

63: Clearasil target

64: Head hunters?

65: Blended-family prefix

67: Place for P.E.

69: Archery bow wood