WORD PUZZLES

ACROSS

1. A dish of tomatoes and greens

6. Assist in crime

10. Curved molding

14. Excuse

15. Magma

16. Places

17. Snouts

18. Handle

19. Scheme

20. Distressing

22. Sexual assault

23. Spelling contest

24. Blockade

26. Gossamer

30. Abominable snowmen

32. Orderly grouping

33. Fortresses

37. Capelin

38. Shrewd

39. Notion

40. Resembling torpidity

42. Declares

43. Violent disturbances

44. Turns away

45. Desert plants

47. Lyric poem

48. Vagabond

49. Prodigious

56. Egg-shaped

57. Legal wrong

58. Bird poop

59. A style of design

60. If not

61. Finally (French)

62. Celebrity

63. Absorb written material

64. Relaxes

DOWN

1. Found on most beaches

2. Balm ingredient

3. Speech disorder

4. Cain’s brother

5. Refuse

6. Seaweed

7. Stinging remark

8. Wicked

9. A wall hanging

10. Domineering

11. Internment camp

12. French for “Storehouse”

13. Feudal worker

21. Confederate soldier

25. 3 in Roman numerals

26. Taxis

27. By mouth

28. French cheese

29. Water-soluble pigment

30. Americans

31. Sea eagle

33. Pace

34. Smell

35. Colorful salamander

36. Back talk

38. Religious residence

41. A sizeable hole

42. Retaliator

44. Citrus drink

45. Desire

46. Hemp

47. Chose

48. Boxes for bricks

50. Lacquered metalware

51. Constellation bear

52. A ridge of sand

53. Clods

54. Module

55. Male offspring