WORD PUZZLES

ACROSS

1. Slave

5. Throat-clearing sound

9. Extinct flightless bird

13. Hodgepodge

14. Sextuplet

16. Barely managed

17. Devotees

18. Change

19. Broth (Scottish)

20. Anxiety

22. Anagram of “Groomsman”

24. Former Italian currency

26. Hawaiian veranda

27. Straightaway

30. Notice

33. Considering that

35. Be in trouble with

37. Rechewed food

38. Jackets and trousers

41. Ribonucleic acid

42. Construct

45. Worn to shreds

48. A task requiring a trip

51. A baby’s room

52. Of a pelvic bone

54. Platter

55. People of high status

59. Floral leaf

62. Stopper

63. Metalwares

65. Agreeable

66. Not warm

67. Small mountains

68. Metal money

69. Feudal worker

70. Lacquered metalware

71. Terminates

DOWN

1. Couch

2. Dash

3. Instigator

4. Dinosaur bones

5. “Eureka!”

6. Steering mechanism for a vessel

7. Glorify

8. An unnaturally frenzied woman

9. Query

10. Gumbo

11. Consider

12. Poems

15. Pilotless plane

21. Snip

23. Nurse shark

25. Rectum

27. A pale blue pigment

28. Habituate

29. Euro forerunner

31. Rectification

32. Channel selector

34. Best seller

36. Gentlewoman

39. Buff

40. An upright in a wall

43. Scrunch up

44. Story

46. Journey

47. Gist

49. One after eighth

50. Robber

53. A stringed instrument

55. Behold, in old Rome

56. Cow sounds

57. Press

58. Peddle

60. Corrosive

61. Focusing glass

64. South southeast

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