WORD PUZZLES

ACROSS

1. Mantelpiece

6. Pile

10. Banner

14. Hot chocolate

15. Beige

16. Liturgy

17. Scorn

18. Misplaced

19. Within

20. Dealer in books

22. Quaint outburst

23. Data

24. Overlook

26. Hindu Mr.

30. An old rustic dance

31. Father

32. Black, in poetry

33. African antelope

35. An inflammation

39. Marksman

41. Gist

43. A throat infection

44. Dispatched

46. Put away

47. Born as

49. Caviar

50. Transgressions

51. A change for the better

54. Iridescent gem

56. Region

57. Fish seller

63. Explosive device

64. Pearly-shelled mussel

65. Line of a poem

66. False god

67. Prig

68. Jagged

69. Declare untrue

70. Feudal worker

71. Scattered, as seed

DOWN

1. Anagram of “Cabs”

2. Vagabond

3. Reflected sound

4. Search

5. The language of Persia

6. Perditions

7. Environmental science

8. Backside

9. State of decomposition

10. Excluded from a society

11. Vernacular

12. Fragrant oil

13. Crystal-lined rock

21. Savor

25. Gossips

26. What we sleep on

27. Incite

28. Wild hog

29. Incontrovertibly

34. He fears foreigners

36. Against

37. Computer symbol

38. Recent events

40. Type of sword

42. Water vapor

45. Ablation

48. Flow out

51. Fanatical

52. Wear away

53. A tart fruit

55. Adores

58. Hotels

59. Roman emperor

60. Get bigger

61. Being

62. Marsh plant