1: Help for the hapless

5: Casino card game

9: Bush

14: 100-0, e.g.

15: Sparkle

16: Tenant's contract

17: Hard to brush off

19: Rowed the boat

20: Picks up

21: Crush the spirit

23: Helios, to the Romans

24: In the time left

25: Debatable gift

28: Grim figure

32: Circle sections

36: Tiny type size

38: Apt rhyme for 'dale'

39: Brilliant stroke

40: Central points

41: Nasal passage

42: 'Spenser: For ___' (Urich series)

43: Word on a gift tag

44: Unit of power

45: Contradict

46: Rational

47: Declassify

49: Divot material

50: Groaner

52: Navigator's need

54: Shell discards

58: Mocks

62: Eyed rakishly

63: Red quartz

65: Little diamond

66: Stored to develop aroma, as tobacco

67: Besides

68: Fall bloom

69: Kittens' cries

70: Took to the air

1: Like the Atacama

2: Unaccompanied

3: Has to

4: Filthy abodes

5: State of fitness

6: Microbrewery offerings

7: Campaigned for office

8: Not fooled by

9: Skiing area

10: Anguish

11: Exceptional

12: Takes advantage of

13: Where oysters grow

18: Cross the goal line

22: Fire places

25: Lineman's aids

26: Greek gathering spot

27: It can be saved and cured

29: Like a roc

30: Bottoms

31: Remove by dissolving

33: Muddies

34: Unusual collectible

35: Radar reading

37: ''Man of the Year'' for one?

41: Tried to hit a pitch

45: Trumpet

48: They're made by sorry folks

51: Reporting to

53: Seasoned rice

54: Pas de deux conclusion

55: Reason and Enlightenment

56: Slattern

57: Con job

58: Girls' books hero Nancy

59: Soup herb

60: Life of Riley

61: Frosty's composition

64: Historical period