WORD PUZZLES

ACROSS

1. Pear variety

5. Damage

9. Writing fluids

13. “Do ___ others...”

14. A part of the small intestine

16. Ark builder

17. Flower stalk

18. Devilfish

19. Wicked

20. Overly sentimental

22. Strolled

24. Plunder

26. Hawaiian veranda

27. Quantify

30. Chuckles

33. Issuing commands

35. 8th Greek letter

37. What we sleep on

38. Willow

41. 59 in Roman numerals

42. Smell

45. An edible sunfish

48. Wound

51. Fundamental or central idea

52. Utilizing

54. “Darn!”

55. More important

59. Barb

62. Carve in stone

63. Master of ceremonies

65. Corporate image

66. Cooking fat

67. Purposes

68. Type of sword

69. Neat

70. Garret

71. D D D D

DOWN

1. Kiss

2. Savvy about

3. Folding portable ladder

4. Write

5. Not her

6. “What a shame!”

7. Kidney-related

8. Bilateral

9. Complain

10. French for “Black”

11. Cabbagelike vegetable

12. Outbuilding

15. Bread from Heaven

21. Not mine

23. Tight

25. Threesome

27. Gangs

28. Construct

29. N N N N

31. Green chalcedony

32. Supporting column

34. A castrated tomcat

36. Spindle

39. Antlered animal

40. Regretted

43. Risqué

44. Backside

46. Tropical American wildcat

47. Twisted into deformity

49. Specks

50. Beast

53. Small lizard

55. Toward sunset

56. Decorative case

57. Frozen

58. Coral barrier

60. Curved molding

61. Troubles

64. Eastern Standard Time

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