1: Lowlife

4: Chest protector

7: Ambassadorial fashion accessory

11: New Mexico necktie

12: Upgrade the decor

13: Made a selection

15: Supposedly

17: Stuffed delicacy

18: Deep distress

19: Most chilling?

21: Mao follower?

22: Unproductive

23: Hightails it

24: Sesame starter?

27: NPR has none

28: People

30: 'Leading With My ___' (Leno book)

33: Vegan's staple

36: Shine

38: Suspended

39: Took the gold

40: Dirt, so to speak

41: Prank

43: Table supports

45: Tobacco pipe part

46: Some choir members

48: It may be passed on the Hill

50: Indian music

51: Maître d's offering

53: Spider in the kitchen

56: Hoedown honey

58: They're secretive

60: Tint

61: Terminating

64: Moneymen

66: Spirit in a bottle

67: Temper

68: Responsibility

69: Obligation

70: Get nosy

71: Place for P.E.

1: Flush or blush

2: Back way

3: She's a deer

4: Lower, as a light

5: Does nothing

6: Lads

7: Divot material

8: Musclebound brute

9: Tight

10: Gropes for words

11: My brothel's keeper?

12: Given a new look

14: Block up

16: Brighten

20: Water temperature 'gauge'

25: Corkscrew-tailed animal

26: Join, as the Army

27: Heart problem

28: Keg tap

29: Decision made at home?

30: Dance part?

31: Peck partner

32: Transfer from one carrier to another, as freight

34: Night birds

35: Dr. No, to Bond

37: May celebrant

42: Minor player, so to speak

44: Smoothed wood

47: Tease mercilessly

49: Use foul language

51: Mount Vernon, e.g.

52: Diplomat

53: Counterfeit

54: Gold, chemically speaking

55: Promontory

56: Practical joke

57: Fired

59: Like a wet noodle

62: Quill tip

63: Obtain

65: Dress fancily, with 'out'