WORD PUZZLES

ACROSS

1. Slender nails

6. Contributes

10. Slender

14. Relative magnitudes

15. Reclined

16. Alleviate

17. Fruit of the oak tree

18. Scottish hillside

19. Powdery dirt

20. Reliable

22. Chills and fever

23. Abominable Snowman

24. Dulcimer

26. Bawdy

30. Fury

31. Before, poetically

32. ___ vera

33. Snug (British spelling)

35. Signed

39. What we wear

41. Gist

43. An analytic literary composition

44. An aquatic bird

46. Arid

47. Consumer Price Index

49. An Old Testament king

50. Travelled through water

51. A song of loyalty

54. Shower

56. Disable

57. Inhabitant of ancient Babylon

63. Bicycle

64. Small island

65. Tropical fruit

66. Not odd

67. Casket

68. Cambered

69. A musical pause

70. Hearing organs

71. Twosomes

DOWN

1. Actor Pitt

2. Dash

3. At the peak of

4. Calamitous

5. Lad

6. Gooney bird

7. Handcuffs

8. Found on rotary phones

9. Allergic reaction

10. Solemnity

11. Chuckle

12. Put out

13. Gauge

21. Defrost

25. Colored part of an eye

26. Shoestring

27. L L L L

28. Romances

29. A small unit of troops

34. Ones who say yes

36. Was cognizant

37. Beige

38. Consider

40. Hoopla

42. Escargot

45. A small active songbird

48. Drink

51. Yellowish-brown

52. Unsophisticated

53. Kids

55. Wanderer

58. Largest continent

59. Not

60. Ancient Peruvian

61. Matured

62. Gestures of assent

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