WORD PUZZLES

ACROSS

1. Fizzy drink

5. Spurt

9. Stag or doe

13. Small songbird

14. Endure

16. Small island

17. Sore

18. Grind together

19. Trees of the genus Quercus

20. Perhaps

22. Antimonopoly

24. Residence hall

26. Latin name for our planet

27. Pendant earring

30. Andean animals

33. A sports outfit

35. Markedly masculine

37. Consume

38. Chopin composition

41. Policeman

42. Manicurist’s board

45. A precious stone

48. Loathsome

51. Pitch or tar

52. Noblemen

54. Incline

55. Encumbrance

59. A narrow gorge

62. False god

63. Kitchen appliance

65. Former Italian currency

66. If not

67. Sea eagles

68. End ___

69. Clairvoyant

70. Cravings

71. Outbuilding

DOWN

1. Travelled through water

2. Killer whale

3. Desiccated

4. Any person

5. Muzzle

6. Forearm bone

7. Tilt

8. Lodge

9. Panorama

10. Brother of Jacob

11. Large North American deer (plural)

12. A musical pause

15. Vortex

21. Makes a mistake

23. Streetcar

25. Pout

27. Type of sword

28. San Antonio fort

29. A sizeable hole

31. Do

32. Gleamed

34. Pull

36. Not closed

39. Cotillion girl

40. Arab chieftain

43. Puzzler

44. Not mine

46. Male deer

47. Burial mound

49. An edict of the Russian tsar

50. Guard

53. British biscuit

55. Hastens (archaic)

56. Doing nothing

57. Schnozzola

58. Not odd

60. Algonquian Indian

61. Not soft

64. S

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