1: Minstrel poet

5: Stage piece

9: Las Vegas rollers

13: State peremptorily

14: Indian maid

15: Half of an '80s crime-fighting duo

16: Jambalaya grain

17: ___-tat

18: Square things

19: Record collections?

21: Dispositions

22: Kept someone awake, perhaps

23: Run off

25: Remote room?

27: Ask for

31: Behaves

35: Block up

37: Strip

38: Concealed

40: Come to pass

42: Strikes from a proof

43: Felt sorry for

45: Blob of used gum

47: Acct. summary

48: TV provider of 'a word'

50: Kind of talk

52: Quite high

54: Less messy

59: Use unwisely

62: Formidable contest

64: Bay

65: Burn soother

66: Symbol of stubbornness

67: Ruins 007's martini?

68: Goes downhill fast?

69: October birthstone

70: Pete Rose had 4,256 of them

71: Sentry's shout

72: Soaks, as flax

1: Troubadours of yore

2: Like a roc

3: Right-hand page

4: Cheerless

5: Flaunted

6: Handwoven rugs

7: Any Roy Rogers flick

8: Distinct stages

9: Article starters

10: Computer signpost

11: Quarter fraction

12: Spots

15: Like wine bottles

20: Four-poster, e.g.

24: School of whales

26: 'Uh uh'

28: Religious splinter group

29: Footnote word

30: SAT part

31: PC software

32: Curtail

33: Pooch in 'The Wizard of Oz'

34: 'Arsenic and Old Lace' aunts, e.g.

36: Gaping mouth

39: Sonnet sections

41: Fare for the toothless

44: She's a deer

46: Least likely to understand

49: Hardly original idea

51: Capital of Phoenix?

53: Lawrence Welk tune

55: Knight dress?

56: Moderate gray

57: Razzle-dazzle

58: Rod companions

59: Genie's bestowal

60: Knock preceder

61: Cat's eye, sometimes

63: Irritate