1: Beldames

5: Insulting remark

9: Supports, with 'up'

14: Earthenware jar

15: Brainwave

16: Eagle's nest

17: Responded 'Not guilty'

18: Stapleton of 'All in the Family'

19: New South Wales, for one

20: Ophthalmologist's supply

23: Quarterback Brady of the Patriots

24: Galoot

25: Long-legged birds

27: Raised

30: Point maker

32: Spoil

33: Many a prime-time series

36: 'Goddess' of the opera, literally

39: Lions and Tigers and Bears

41: Chocolate substitute

42: Sign of healing

43: Final prelim

44: Like 'The Gift of the Magi'

46: Tap output

47: Straighten out, as an iron bar

49: Tended a squeaky hinge

51: Some condiments

53: Black, to a bard

55: Show of affection

56: Its depth is illusory

62: Culture media

64: Copter's cousin

65: Overwhelmed

66: Fix loose laces

67: Insincerely fluent

68: Kane's dying thought

69: Bottom-of-the-barrel stuff

70: Goes out with

71: Get a glimpse of

1: Anticipatory feeling

2: Friend

3: Tickled-pink feeling

4: Bicycle part

5: Dainty ornament

6: Well-versed

7: Sow's opposite

8: Problem source

9: Quarterback, at times

10: Out of work? (abbr.)

11: Like a long speech

12: Mountain climber's spike

13: Appears to be

21: Fishing gear

22: Equilateral quadrilaterals

26: Crimsons

27: Baseball VIPs

28: Cut back

29: Announce

30: Young codfish

31: Ring-tailed critter

34: Most chilling?

35: Mountain lake

37: Apt rhyme for 'dale'

38: All tucked in

40: Greed and gluttony

45: Murmurs tenderly

48: Low strings

50: If

51: Glass fragment

52: Boring tool

53: Spine-tingling

54: Dimwits

57: They're beaten in the kitchen

58: Get all stirred up

59: Night birds

60: Tiniest protest

61: Small whirlpool

63: Trucker's ride