WORD PUZZLES

ACROSS

1. “Oh my!”

5. Versed

10. Quash

14. Start over

15. Oddity

16. Portent

17. Castrate

19. Christmas season

20. Pull

21. _____ fit

22. Trades

23. A Christian recluse

25. Blockage of the intestine

27. One or more

28. Expressive of contempt

31. Office worker

34. Started

35. Petroleum

36. A building for skating

37. Brandish

38. Stake

39. Mineral rock

40. Mild and pleasant

41. A friction match

42. Blanches

44. Gangster’s gun

45. Curmudgeonly

46. Sandstorm

50. Welcome

52. Fall color

54. Flee

55. Tardy

56. Type of chalcedony

58. Relating to urine

59. Love intensely

60. Nameless

61. Engineering school

62. Daisylike bloom

63. D D D D

DOWN

1. Mountain crest

2. Bushbaby

3. Maxim

4. Mayday

5. Wit

6. Coarse edible red seaweed

7. Historical periods

8. Compassionately

9. Foot digit

10. Peeping Tom

11. Colloids

12. Express in words

13. 1 1 1 1

18. Crack

22. Observed

24. Assign a grade

26. A feudal vassal

28. Appears

29. Anagram of “Tine”

30. Delight

31. Prune

32. Former Italian currency

33. Industrious

34. Wallets

37. Ragamuffin

38. Car

40. Match

41. Fees for buses

43. Rear of tube

44. Beam

46. Beach

47. Duplicate

48. Small boat

49. Portents

50. Oversupply

51. Unusual

53. Codger

56. Bleat

57. Little bit

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