crossword puzzle

ACROSS 1 beat out grain from its husk / to toss about 7 read 13 raised or lifted with effort 14 fast or at once / (music) in fast tempo 15 metal bolt or pin with a head / fix or fasten 16 breach / chasm 19 pale / wan /

sallow 20 one who uses

drugs 21 self-composure 23 (myth) any fairylike or elfin being 24 jumbled letters to read ‘silent' 26 jumbled letters to read ‘hearse' 28 high school 29 leak / ooze 31 heroic poem 32 preposition 33 station 34 doctrine / theory 35 French title given a female saint 37 wrote ‘The

Raven' 39 brother 41 native mineral 43 before noon 45 supplicate 47 in the front /

ahead 49 pa's mate 51 hate / loathe /

abhor 53 large, nonpoisonous snake that crushes its prey to death 55 smell / whiff /

stench 56 musical composition designed to give practice in some special point of technique 60 long, wooden poles with broad thin blades at one end for rowing and steering boats 61 radio detecting

device 63 a unit / single 64 dart / missile 65 gladdens 67 jumbled letters to read ‘themes' 68 jumbled letters to read ‘vestry' 69 jumbled letters to read ‘dreams' DOWN 1 songbird / a woman singer of popular songs 2 break-ins / thefts / robberies 3 Poe's lustrous, black bird of the crow family 4 highest known mountain in the world located in the Himalayas 5 scheduled / hardened 6 head 7 postpaid /

prepaid 8 period in history 9 esteem 10 escort 11 record player 12 eternal 16 depart / leave 17 three-toed sloth 18 postscript 21 baked dish of fruit, meat with an under and/or upper crust or both 22 extra-sensory

perception 25 heads / bosses 27 antiquity 30 letter in the Greek alphabet 31 printer's

measure 33 any fluid considered vital to life 36 before 38 manage 39 preposition 40 preposition 42 answers 43 worshipper /

admirer 44 badges 46 dined 48 poetic for open 49 sullen 50 respond / reply 52 the present time 54 seraglio 57 preposition 58 NYC (USA)based international organization of nations pledged to promote peace and security 59 prefix signifying ‘separation'; ‘away from' 62 speed up the

engine 64 expression of

triumph 66 street / saint 67 medical doctor