1. Wearing footgear
5. Absent without leave
9. South American country
13. Adhesive strip
14. Batman's sidekick
16. Weightlifters pump this
17. Vipers
18. Sporting venue
19. State of mind
20. Specter
22. A public declaration of intentions
24. A-line line
26. Long-necked bird
27. Mixed
30. A salt used especially in baking powder
33. Worn to shreds
35. Recurring theme
37. Prefix meaning "Above"
38. Make into law
41. Crag
42. Cat sounds
45. Sicken
48. Sharpshooter
51. Exact
52. What we pay the government
54. A gas found in some lights
55. Indistinguishable
59. Gash
62. Small European freshwater fish
63. Statesman
65. Double-reed woodwind
66. Mistakes
67. Soft fine silk
68. Paste
69. Excretory opening
70. Bombard
71. Scream
2. Chop finely
3. Adversary
4. Cake or pie
5. The genus of macaws
6. Contemptible person
7. A religious cult
8. A small finch
9. A type sweet pepper
10. Greek god of love
11. Part of the plant in the soil
12. Cancel
15. Nigerian monetary unit
23. A document to fill in
25. No more than
27. Flower stalk
28. Cassettes
29. Lair
31. Possible
32. Violent disturbances
34. One of the 12 tribes of Israel
36. Liberated
39. Hat
40. Veer
43. Observer
46. Views
47. Bionomics
49. Be
50. Recover
53. French for "Room"
55. Notion
56. Gosh!
57. Almond
58. Recline
60. The immaterial part of a person
61. Scoundrel
64. Mesh