WORD PUZZLES

ACROSS

1. If not

5. Yellowish-brown

10. Poop

14. Hireling

15. New Zealand native

16. Sister and wife of Zeus

17. Severe

19. Wicked

20. Frequently, in poetry

21. Ancient Mexican

22. Conflicts

23. Labored respiration

25. Spin

27. Sum

28. Literary criticism

31. Tired

34. The male reproductive cell

35. Fury

36. Border

37. Not last

38. Debatable

39. Point

40. Sea eagles

41. Marriage announcement

42. Extraordinarily large

44. 52 in Roman numerals

45. Wounds

46. Half woman and half fish

50. Make into law

52. Homeric epic

54. African antelope

55. Head

56. Impasse

58. As just mentioned

59. Subsequently

60. Beers

61. An abandoned calf

62. Glacial ridge

63. French for “Head”

DOWN

1. Ancient Hebrew vestment

2. Foliate

3. Classifies

4. Terminate

5. Agape

6. Devilfish

7. Portend

8. Verticality

9. Disencumber

10. Chipper

11. Intense aversion

12. Desiccated

13. Friends

18. Useful

22. Movie

24. Role

26. Verruca

28. French for “After”

29. Weightlifters pump this

30. Collections

31. Walk in water

32. Black, in poetry

33. Machine-controlled

34. Inflammation of the sinuses

37. Not “To”

38. Disable

40. Send forth

41. Jays and owls, for example

43. Flower part

44. Boss

46. Chop finely

47. Spry

48. Arm of the sea

49. Coarse edible red seaweed

50. Sweeping story

51. Nil

53. Lean

56. South southeast

57. Make lace

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