WORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1. Plateau 5. Flower holder 9. Not that 13. Chooses 14. Toward the outside 16. Boorish 17. Dribble 18. Not those 19. District 20. Stitched 22. Being the basic part 24. Diva's solo 26. Assumed name 27. Whitish edible root 30. Unbending 33. Savior 35. It delivers babies? 37. Mineral rock 38. Ritzy 41. Religious sister 42. Cheapskate 45. Having no intelligible

meaning 48. Break out 51. Bishopric 52. Flip over 54. After-bath powder 55. Gambit 59. Throw 62. Tailless stout-bodied

amphibian 63. Clear 65. Heap 66. Savvy about 67. Tablet 68. Any day now 69. Equal 70. Run away 71. Terminates

DOWN

1. Nonvascular plant 2. Type of sword 3. Flight attendant 4. Bad-mouth 5. Animal doctor 6. Dull pain 7. Grave marker 8. Artists' workstands 9. A surveying instrument 10. Offended 11. Bright thought 12. Secure against

leakage 15. To yield or submit 21. Eat 23. Hearing organs 25. Goals 27. A formal high school

dance 28. Eagle's nest 29. Church bench 31. Link 32. A framework of

beams 34. Dashed 36. Leg joint 39. A gesture of assent 40. Make a sweater 43. S. American country

44. Awestruck 46. A cleansing agent 47. Overshadow 49. Knells 50. Overwhelm 53. Sticker 55. Cease 56. Anagram of "Note" 57. Be worthy of 58. Small amount 60. Lummox 61. Female chickens 64. D