1. Actors Erwin and Gilliam

5. Go by, as time

11. "Hogwash!"

16. "99 Luftballons" singer

17. Soldier's helmet, slangily

18. "La Bohème," e.g.

19. Purim quote part I

21. Romeo's rival

22. Mondrian namesakes

23. Long, long time

24. Face-to-face exam

25. Purim quote part II

30. Earth, to Mahler

31. “___ boom bah!”

32. Bar order, with "the"

33. Balaam's mount

36. Japan's largest active volcano

37. Judith Kaplan Eisenstein, the first American to publicly celebrate a ___ mitzvah

38. Female hormone

40. Aggravate

41. "___ floods cannot quench love..."

43. Void partner

44. Purim quote part III

49. Draft picks?

50. Buck's tail?

51. Evil spell

52. Purim quote part IV

55. Purim quote part V

56. Clean-air org.

59. Favorite

60. Jane Austen novel

61. Prohibit

62. Textile production center of North Macedonia

63. Required hearing on Purim

66. Purim quote part VI

68. The Trojans of the N.C.A.A.

69. Put on paper

70. Paris newspaper, with "Le"

71. Purim quote conclusion

74. Awful smell

75. And so on and so forth

76. Kind of job

77. At ___ for words

78. Andre of tennis

79. Diminutive of Esther

1. Veggie with an edible pod

2. "The Alchemist" artist

3. Cook insufficiently

4. "I __ light"

5. Ike's command, once: abbr.

6. Gives something a thumbs up

7. Bothers

8. Platter player

9. Noticed

10. Aliens, for short

11. An eggy, puffy roll

12. Extra

13. Bickerer in the "Iliad"

14. Seed husk

15. "How ___ I to know?"

20. Pretax funds for medical expenses: abbr.

26. Biden's former press secretary Jen ___

27. Employs so that one is able

28. Must

29. Invoice abbr.

33. Lago contents

34. Unload, as stock

35. NBC fixture since '75

37. Support system?

39. Black stone

40. Formal reply to "Who's there?"

41. Of the spring

42. "Much ___ About Nothing"

44. ___ vera

45. Makeup, e.g.

46. Ruth's mother-in-law

47. French wine region

48. "Star-Spangled Banner" preposition

49. Software program, briefly

53. Wobbles

54. Sports academy letters

55. They're loaded

56. Sets of guiding beliefs

57. Devotee of a Lutheran movement

58. Chalet social activity

61. Violent blows

62. Take long steps

63. Windows precursor

64. Puccini's birthplace

65. Its London terminus is Waterloo Sta.

66. Piano man Billy ___

67. Gay Talese's "___ the Sons"

70. Juilliard deg.

71. The Dead or the Red, e.g.

72. Position to the left of the big blind: abbr.

73. Third century date