WORD PUZZLES

ACROSS

1. After-bath powder

5. Napped

10. U-boats

14. Chocolate cookie

15. Cowboy movie

16. Leg joint

17. Bearing

18. Beyond belief

20. Illegitimate child

22. Half woman and half fish

23. Citrus drink

24. French for “After”

25. The state of being a citizen

32. Pee

33. French school

34. Glass container

37. Foot digits

38. Ritzy

39. Country bumpkin

40. Terminate

41. Name of a book

42. Slander

43. Compulsively

45. Vamoose

49. Mineral rock

50. Low leather step-in shoes

53. Twisted into deformity

57. Encumbrance

59. Wild hog

60. Backwards “Reed”

61. Carried

62. Beige

63. Being

64. Sugary

65. Little dent

DOWN

1. Grave

2. Operatic solo

3. Dregs

4. Has within

5. Evening event

6. Territory

7. And so forth

8. Hair salon process

9. Tall woody plant

10. Cut corners

11. Anagram of “Urban”

12. Negate

13. Sows

19. Curtain

21. Axlike tool

25. Adorable

26. Press

27. Fastened

28. Salamanders

29. Climb

30. Sharpens

31. Type

34. A certain confection

35. Cain’s brother

36. Depend

38. Bro or sis

39. River bottom

41. Volumes

42. Former Italian currency

44. Shakespearean verse

45. Skid

46. Arrives

47. Sexually assaults

48. Ere

51. Bones on your sides

52. Put away

53. Departed

54. Hubs

55. Acquire deservedly

56. Medication

58. Fury

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