Flatware manufacture that is an offshoot of a 19th century religious commune
15A
Cruel
17A
Country
18A
"In that case, my answer would still be the same"
19A
Singular prefix
20A
Was it a borcarite Nerf frenetir acrobat I ___?
22A
Turning on a fixed point
23A
Groups
25A
Enation victim likely
27A
Amphibious ship for landing tanks on shore
28A
Half of an Arnold Palmer
31A
Ado
35A
Baker or Hill
38A
Cnidus' peninsula
40A
You still haven't seen the elephant seals at ___ Nuevo State Park? I keep telling you, you gotta see them
41A
Breeding nest
42A
Chemical suffix that is not compass direction (although it could be the title of the autobiography of a compass direction)
43A
Store in cans again
45A
Chemical suffix that is a compass direction
46A
Anglo-saxon feudal workers (which aren't compass directions but can be written as a string of four of them)
48A
Drift in a general direction
49A
"A ____ in a Wig"; deleted scene from *Through the Looking Glass"
51A
Set afire
53A
Retina's organ
55A
___ es Salaam
56A
Understandable response to something 52D
60A
Actress Ursula who is least known for Slave of the Cannibal God
64A
Gran
66A
Not __ _ million years
67A
Gregorian chant; or pertaining to 14th century musical notation
69A
Teutonic
71A
Scribe's accessory for reloading a pen
72A
U.C. home of the Anteaters
73A
Max Ebb and ___ Helm; fictitious sailors in a Latitude 38 educational column.
74A
Sound mad when solving a Sunday meta (if you want to draw it out)
75A
Share billing
Verticales
1D
Extra goody
2D
Germane and cogent, it most certainly is not
3D
Comprehend the matter
4D
CD + DCII
5D
Flaps
6D
Toasty nibble
7D
Filled pastry
8D
They can be SAS (Self-Addressed Stamped)
9D
Wood varnish
10D
Melodies
11D
Global Alliance for Heritage Interpretation (don't overthink it)
12D
Administrator to his brother-in-law Amenhotep II (or maybe one of the important letters of this meta?)
13D
Hang ___ Index (major Hong Kong stock market index)
16D
Calendar run that isn't Jason
21D
Event hens party tend to precede
24D
In ____; natural or original position or place
26D
Finishing and done
29D
Box or receptacle for holding something
30D
Dry winds of 38A
32D
Tardy, ... or deceased
33D
Internal connection that may be useful for access one may not otherwise have. (Rehguad s'dlefhcsrih La Tsirutacirac. )
34D
Small body of water
35D
Again, with a fresh start
36D
Caricaturist Al Hirschfeld's daughter. (Evah esiwrehto ton yam Eno ssecca rof lufesu eb yam taht noitcennoc lanretni)
37D
The day after pi day
39D
Commedia dell'___
44D
Earth goddess
47D
Afternoon naps
50D
Long lasting hair-dos
52D
Seriously lamentable
54D
"The Circus Animals' Desertion" poet.... Now that my ladder's gone I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart
57D
Amount one can't go over
58D
Does you gran like pineapple? Mine doesn't but I sure there's one that does.
What "Do" stands for in "Do men ever visit Britain"
63D
Transgressions
65D
Portrayed by Christopher Biggens, to Derek Jacobi's Claudius, and John Hurt's Caligula
68D
I think I maybe do have about 400 of these music storage media. They're sitting around in a boxes and I haven't gotten around to unpacking them since I moved last year but 400 really doesn't seem like a joke