1. * Matriarch of the Kennedy family
5. Road substance
8. * According to Greek mythology, her abduction by Paris caused the Trojan War. She was married to Menelaus and later became a Mother to daughter Hermione and (possibly) a son named Pleisthenes.
13. Songstress Fitzgerald
14. Sixties Songstress
15. City in central New York
16. Bustling commotions
17. Inventory measurement
18. * Bamm-Bamm's Mother
19. * In the Bible, she was the Mother of Esau and Jacob
21. Montreal Canadien, for short
23. Greek Goddess of Dawn
24. Potential graduates, for short
25. Word on a Towel
26. Medical building, commonly
28. Canadian singer Bachman
29. * Ricky's Mom
33. Land measure
36. Duke Ellington song: "I ___ Song Go Out of My Heart"
39. * Mama Cass had a crush on this Papa: ___ Doherty
40. Bull: prefix
41. * Planetary Mother
43. Cut back hedges
44. Heard in a Ritzy Restaurant: "Would you like your wine selection to be sweet ___?"
46. Yes! Yes! In Spain!
47. Jekyll's altar ego
48. * Last name of Gladys, the world's most famous rock 'n' roll Mother
50. Illuminated
52. 'At the age of', in Latin
53. ___-Pitch: Baseball pitch, variantly
54. Hoofed Herbivore
57. "Ice" in Germany
60. Member of Kiss
62. * Name shared by a religious Mother and a pop-star-turned-Mother
64. Roman Numerals for 704
66. * Superstar Mother to Chastity and Elijah Blue
68. Frankenstein's sidekick
69. * Mother of Fairytales
70. Saintly
71. Currency in Italy
72. Go in
73. Choose
74. * Mother Eve's third son

1. * Brings up, like a Mother does
2. More advanced with age
3. Slovenly ones
4. Facilitate
5. Canned fishies
6. Cassius Clay
7. * Great-Grandmother of King David
8. * Mother in a Nursery Rhyme
9. Nice summer
10. Word seen on a diet food package
11. Outer: prefix
12. Parliamentary votes
14. * Legendary situation comedy Mom
20. It's a Latin dance, when doubled
22. Chicken King connecter
27. * Author of "Mother Courage and Her Children" (1941)
28. * Revered Mother
29. Head coverings
30. With thorough understanding
31. Barenaked Ladies song
32. Sort
33. On
34. Canadian painter: Emily ___ (b.1871 - d.1945)
35. Trick
37. Simple
38. Prefix to "cycle"
42. * Chelsea's Mom
45. * Married name of Beaver's Mother
49. And so on, briefly
51. Purplish-Red wound antiseptic prefix to "ine"
53. Process ore
54. Stones' Smash Song
55. Sty Sound
56. * Biblical Mother of Isaac
57. Rim
58. Image
59. Braveheart or Connery
61. Reverberate! Reverberate!
63. Olive and Corn, for example
65. Bay of Honshu
67. Rabbit's mode of transportation