1. Pierce
5. French for "On"
8. Vipers
12. Lubricate (abbrev.)
13. Wounds or ulcers
15. Exchange
16. Aid
17. Has not (contraction)
18. Stiff hair or bristle
19. Rails and posts on a staircase
22. Estimate (abbrev.)
23. Garland of flowers
24. Period of penitence
26. Grab
29. More weird
31. Chimp or gorilla
32. Additions to keels to prevent lateral movement
34. Purported inventor of baseball, _____ Doubleday
36. Deposits of urates in joints
38. Cut by violent sweeping strokes
40. Actor ____ Connery
41. Prefix indicating straight or upright
43. Tall woody plants
45. ___ Victor (company)
46. Honors courses at Cambridge
48. Most recent
50. Right away
51. A tribe of Israel
52. "Wise" bird
54. Sanctioned
61. Inheritor
63. Radioactive gas
64. Foretell
65. Prefix indicating transcendence
66. Beside
67. Something borrowed
68. Island of the Inner Hebrides
69. Inventor ___ Whitney
70. Deciduous trees of the genus Ulmus
2. Musical instrument
3. Cain's brother
4. Genus for birch trees
5. Fly high
6. Bear
7. Pull or wrench
8. Donkey
9. Aspartames or sugars
10. Taps
11. Fight or argument
13. Characteristic acts (slang)
14. Inscribed upright slab
21. Body fluids
25. Sharp, projecting tips
26. Athletic competition
27. Non-participation in war
28. Stops
29. City in Germany
30. Response
31. In the past
33. Compel (Scottish)
35. Registered Nursing Assistant
37. Thing just mentioned
39. Paying attention
44. Propelled self through water
47. Classical musical theatre
49. Make possible
52. Units of electrical resistance
53. 7 days
55. Severe storm
56. Image of a deity
57. The Captain and ____ Tennille
58. Useful device
59. Dutch cheese
60. Lairs
61. Actress Charlotte ___