WORD PUZZLES

ACROSS

1. Slender nails

6. Cards with 1 symbol

10. Footnote note

14. Circumscribe

15. Agreement

16. What a person is called

17. French farewell

18. A single time

19. Male undergrad social club

20. Schoolmaster

22. Balcony section

23. Falafel bread

24. The first event in a series

26. Pang

30. A parcel of land

31. 59 in Roman numerals

32. Cry out

33. Distinctive flair

35. Jaunty rhythms

39. A former Turkish term of respect

41. Icebreaker

43. Defrost

44. Small salmon

46. Humdinger

47. Foot digit

49. By means of

50. Biblical garden

51. Not first

54. If not

56. A purring sound

57. Aggravation

63. Operatic solo

64. Feathery scarves

65. A type of dance

66. He writes in verse

67. A jaunty rhythm

68. Anagram of “Sneer”

69. Anagram of “Sees”

70. L L L L

71. Offensively curious

DOWN

1. Ho-hum

2. Go on horseback

3. Dogfish

4. Perished

5. The base part of a tree

6. Pontifical

7. Choral composition

8. Behold, in old Rome

9. Unsaturated alcohol

10. Rigid

11. Nobleman

12. Picture

13. Discourage

21. Suffered

25. Heap

26. Blown away

27. Eatery

28. High fidelity

29. Voters

34. Anarchists

36. Blaring

37. Story

38. Render unconscious

40. A noble gas

42. Seashore

45. Including everything

48. Comestible

51. Anagram of “Space”

52. European currency (plural)

53. Weeps

55. Consumed

58. Agitate

59. Tropical tuber

60. Hotels

61. Curved molding

62. Prying

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