WORD PUZZLES

ACROSS

1. Exhausts

5. Dirt

9. Burst of wind

13. Two-toed sloth

14. Keyboard instrument

16. “Do ___ others...”

17. Not up

18. Artillery burst

19. Bearing

20. Smooths

22. Highly offensive

24. Partiality

26. A religion based on sorcery

27. Layer

30. Loathsome

33. Hotheaded

35. Slowly, in music

37. Biblical boat

38. Ancient Roman magistrate

41. Type of dog

42. Adolescents

45. Conveyed by air

48. Author

51. Bishopric

52. What we pay to the govt.

54. Smack

55. Flexible

59. A kind of macaw

62. A collaborative website

63. Cages

65. Weightlifters pump this

66. Ear-related

67. Carries

68. Tidy

69. Lean

70. You (archaic)

71. Contributes

DOWN

1. Lather

2. Dwarf buffalo

3. A type of lender

4. Ancient timepiece

5. Mayday

6. By mouth

7. Snow house

8. Washbasin

9. Detective (slang)

10. Pearly-shelled mussel

11. Flower stalk

12. Anagram of “Note”

15. Well-known

21. Satisfy

23. Salute

25. Certain

27. Leave in a hurry

28. Tossed

29. Central

31. Not ready

32. Renders senseless

34. Spy agency

36. Curved molding

39. Cover

40. Anagram of “Sire”

43. Be overly critical

44. Immediately

46. South American weapon

47. Egg-shaped instrument

49. Precise

50. Restart a computer

53. Indolence

55. Absent Without Leave

56. Devil tree

57. Analogous

58. Type of sword

60. Street

61. Picnic insects

64. South southeast YESTERDAY’S ANSWER