WORD PUZZLES

ACROSS

1. Eyeglasses

6. Toboggan

10. Decay from overripening

14. Silk-cotton tree

15. It ebbs and flows

16. Tropical American wildcat

17. In a cold manner

18. Arab chieftain

19. Teller of untruths

20. Slow down

22. Savvy about

23. “___ Maria”

24. Vernacular

26. Underwrite

30. Fastening

32. Sealant

33. Husks

37. Send forth

38. Small fatty European fish

39. Half-moon tide

40. Erosion by friction

42. American aloe

43. Sharp

44. Broken

45. Assail

47. Gangster’s gun

48. Audition tape

49. Permissiveness

56. Shower

57. Distinctive flair

58. Chain of hills

59. Against

60. Ascend

61. Genuflected

62. Pear variety

63. Drunkards

64. Affirmatives

DOWN

1. Slip

2. Rate

3. Sweeping story

4. ___ slaw

5. Cavort

6. Cubic meter

7. City in Peru

8. Modify

9. Homeless person

10. Possessions

11. Prevaricating

12. Muse of love poetry

13. Tropical tuber

21. Biblical first woman

25. Writing liquid

26. Anagram of “Dice”

27. What a person is called

28. A set of garments

29. Inaudible

30. Spasm

31. Basic unit of money in China

33. Expectoration

34. Tidy

35. Donated

36. Hurried

38. Stammers

41. Frozen water

42. Economic independence

44. Tavern

45. Keno

46. Gives forth

47. Segments of DNA

48. Blah

50. Hodgepodge

51. Not first

52. Prong

53. Midmonth date

54. Leer at

55. Catches