The Crossword

Across

1 skilled

5 textile fiber

10 barge

14 den

15 some exams

16 stance

17 appeals/foodstuff/failure

20 hebrew letter

21 droops

22 mountain nymph

23 Antagonist

24 Help!

25 Direct/turn back/short

34 Swayed to and fro

35 Roman household gods

36 Trouble

37 Give forth

38 Burgundy grape

39 Not up

40 Family adjunct

41 Stares fixedly

42 Slice thinly

43 Vestige/insertion mark/provide food

46 Rent

47 Lowe or Reiner

48 Performs alone

51 Entire range

54 Gratuity

57 Non-poetry/lassos/plant seed

60 "Bus Stop" playwright

61 Concerning

62 Poison tree

63 Exigency

64 Disordered

65 Hue

DOWN

1 European mountains

2 Indonesian island

3 Legal claim

4 Time span

5 More optimistic

6 Russian sea

7 Germinated grain

8 Seine land areas

9 Sixth sense

10 Thin

11 Priestly vestment

12 Mountain in Thessaly

13 Do garden work

18 Excalibur, e.g.

19 Plunders

23 Units of measure

24 Printer's direction

25 Brushed up

26 Circus worker

27 Webber musical

28 Miss Doolitle

29 More sensible

30 Notched

31 Capital of Morocco

32 Strainer

33 Senior

38 Agreement

39 "Moby Dick" captain

41 Gaggle components

42 Edinburgh natives

44 Not doing business

45 Faithful

48 Gyrate

49 Caen's river

50 Theater box

51 Not present

52 Mimics

53 One kind of wear

54 Pith helmet

55 Islamic republic

56 Nuisance

58 Aries

59 Place

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