1: ___-tat

5: Eurasian forest

10: Provides weapons to

14: Neural fiber

15: Invalidate legally

16: Sow's opposite

17: Small rabbit

19: Plum variety, commonly

20: Prepare for knighthood

21: ___ facto

22: Kind of acid

23: Your umbrella, perhaps

25: Leash

27: Grandmother, affectionately

29: Rewrite for a film, say

32: Smelting residue

35: Tasty flatfish

39: Easter preceder?

40: Cyclotron bit

41: Hires, in a way

42: Slimy stuff

43: Kook

44: Figures of speech

45: Merge

46: Complaint

48: Upgrade the decor

50: Rotini and ziti

54: Ice grabbers

57: Just one of those things

59: Road grooves

61: Well grounded

63: Right, on the map

64: Contaminate

66: Little bit

67: Like some keys

68: Where something may stick

69: Cattle poker

70: Number one place

71: Not his

1: Pool accessory

2: Synaptic transmitters

3: Kind of pole

4: Almost ready to deal

5: Summer coat?

6: Knock preceder

7: Unsuitable

8: Assumed appearance

9: Pass out

10: Had words

11: Change furniture around

12: Christmas trio

13: What some writers work on

18: Earthenware jar

24: 'Come on in'

26: Milliner's stock

28: Mercury or Saturn

30: It may be Olympic-sized

31: Trampled (on)

32: Tell all

33: Look sullen

34: Italian appetizer

36: Word before sheet or session

37: Funeral stand

38: First symptoms

41: St. and ave.

45: Large butterfly

47: Stroked playfully or lovingly

49: Peace symbol

51: Lady's companion

52: Record output

53: Job for a daredevil

55: Dirty look

56: Indian lute

57: Secretarial fill-in

58: 'Aquarius' musical

60: Frequent Las Vegas money taker

62: Morning moistures

65: 'Don't give up!'