1. An aquatic bird
5. Nursemaid
9. Subsides
13. Bloodsucking insects
14. Challenges
16. Notion
17. Circle fragments
18. Greek letter
19. Caustics
20. Fangs
22. Exercising weights
24. Urgent request
26. Truth ___
27. Absolutely
30. Inner layer of the skin
33. Two-seater car
35. 3rd Greek letter
37. Hotel
38. Possessed
41. Russian fighter
42. Part of the large intestine
45. Subvert
48. Jettison
51. Emissaries
52. Mix
54. Cut into cubes
55. The words of operas
59. Feudal workers
62. Murres
63. Flogged
65. 53 in Roman numerals
66. Bell sound
67. Child of a male horse and female donkey
68. Territory
69. Anagram of "Sees"
70. Tardy
71. If not
2. Cable
3. Favorable reception
4. Snuggled
5. Commercials
6. A female domestic
7. A giant with 100 eyes (Greek mythology)
8. Stitched
9. Quandary
10. Bucolic
11. Rind
12. Back talk
15. A fencing sword
23. Town (American slang)
25. Countertenor
27. Relating to urine
28. Laser printer powder
29. A type of evergreen tree
31. Extraneous
32. Strike
34. Ribonucleic acid
36. How old we are
39. L
40. Perished
43. Offense
46. Auspices
47. Aircraft engine enclosure
49. Type of climbing plant
50. Necessitate
53. An Italian woman of rank
55. Pear-shaped instrument
56. Colored part of an eye
57. Containers
58. Dispatched
60. They're found on fish
61. On the left or right
64. Coloring agent