6. First phone trio

9. Conspiring group

14. Edmonton hockey player

15. Fifth scale note (var.)

16. Horse or soap follower

17. Color-changing lizard

18. "Aladdin" prince

19. Petitions

20. Host an affair

23. ___ de deux

24. Two fins

25. Buddy

27. Like some organs

32. Peter or Paul, but not Mary

33. Scrooge's shout

34. Deep, deep sleep

36. Deed

39. Any thing

41. Mythical Himalayans

43. Turned blue, maybe

44. Biological organisms

46. Fit for a nobleman

48. Price fixer?

49. Barely gets, with "out"

51. Half step in music

53. Like a pencil point

56. Fiddle stick

57. Baseball stat

58. Sociable to the extreme!

64. Start a tennis match

66. Writer Levin

67. Slur over

68. Parisian quarter

69. Always, in verse

70. Exodus landmark

71. Heretofore

72. Animal house

73. Blossom holders

1. Checked item

2. Lit

3. Old apple spray

4. Unlikely

5. Artists

6. "By yesterday!"

7. Gaucho's weapon

8. Cricket call

9. Scribe

10. Bank loan abbr.

11. In on

12. Nordic

13. Will Rogers' prop

21. Bother

22. Sylvester, to Tweety

26. Aforementioned

27. Large wading bird

28. Alliance acronym

29. Subjective get-together?

30. Acted like

31. Yoga position

35. Houston university

37. Jack Sprat's fare

38. Do a lawn job

40. Construct

42. Brazilian dance

45. Snake

47. Den mother

50. Red or coral

52. Dusky

53. Electrical pioneer Nikola

54. Bailiwicks

55. Preserved, in a way

59. Kilmer's subject

60. Ball material

61. Ore store

62. Sandler of "Big Daddy"

63. Island rings

65. French life