WORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1. Pirate’s pal

6. Affirm

10. Brass instrument

14. San Antonio fort

15. Location

16. Applications

17. Sensational

18. Counterfoil

19. Flows

20. Showman

22. Piece of glass

23. 53 in Roman numerals

24. Egg dish

26. At one time (archaic)

30. Santa’s helper

31. 2,000 pounds

32. Grizzly

33. Homosexuals

35. “Smallest particles”

39. A systematic plan for therapy

41. Daytime performance

43. Relative of a giraffe

44. 2 2 2 2

46. Close

47. Autonomic nervous system

49. Not cold

50. Feudal worker

51. Azotic

54. Bit of gossip

56. Modify

57. Hard coal

63. Dry riverbed

64. Be worthy of

65. Fanatical

66. Not this

67. Afflicts

68. What a bee might do

69. Only

70. Decay from overripening

71. Row of shrubs

DOWN

1. A landlocked African republic

2. Astringent

3. Canvas

4. Arab chieftain

5. Alpine call

6. Attacker

7. Change into glass

8. Decorative case

9. Restart a computer

10. Paint thinner

11. Normal

12. Sesame seed

13. Something of value

21. Blockade

25. Protective ditch

26. River of Spain

27. Stink

28. Epic

29. Three-party

34. Not the roughest

36. 1 1 1 1

37. Average

38. Arid

40. Short skirt

42. Daisylike bloom

45. Pare

48. Dung beetle

51. Salamanders

52. Potato state

53. Related to tides

55. Fen

58. Found on a finger

59. Provisions

60. Footnote note

61. Bell sound

62. Border