5. Slant

9. Dry

14. Bow

15. Bakery purchase, perhaps

16. "La Bohème," e.g.

17. Experience aging

20. Food safety threat

21. Tizzy

22. Charge

23. Medical treatment process

26. Competitive advantage

28. Swiss capital

30. Bag

34. Infomercials, e.g.

37. "American ___"

39. Make amends for

40. Experience trouble

44. Popular Indian side dish

45. Ancient boat builder

46. Lea mamma

47. All over again

49. Hiding place

52. Bust, so to speak

54. Classification for the latest gizmo (var.)

57. Small shaggy-haired buffalo

60. Stag's mate

62. Cliffside dwelling

64. Experience a coup

68. Fast finisher?

69. A-line line

70. Not in favor of

71. Refuse

72. Congers

73. Where Horace Greeley told us to go

1. Beep

2. At attention

3. Pretender?

4. Civil & religious Muslim leader (var.)

5. "My man!"

6. Plus or minus particle

7. Aquatic plant

8. Plaything with a ladder

9. ___ sauce

10. Short version of 16A

11. Bridges of LA

12. Blows it

13. Foolhardy

18. Pinocchio, at times

19. A swelling

24. Bearing

25. ___ a high note

27. Rodent's do it

29. Small salmon

31. Automatic

32. Again

33. French parent

34. Taj Mahal site

35. Like Beethoven

36. Recipe direction

38. Disinclined

41. Repeats

42. Astronaut's insignia

43. Popular Asian cuisine

48. Pelt

50. Top performer

51. Long-running country music show

53. Drench

55. Construction site sight

56. Some people can't take them

57. Ancient

58. Warm, so to speak

59. "Beetle Bailey" dog

61. Fencing need

63. Cut, maybe

65. "48___"

66. Amigo

67. Printing measures