1. Shut forcefully
5. Something hard to endure
10. Iron hook with a handle
14. Tropical American wildcat
15. Heart artery
16. Dwarf buffalo
17. Recantation
19. An eye infection
20. Donkey
21. A city in central China
22. More sticky
24. Employer
25. Imitative behavior
26. Instant
29. Mixture of dry cereals and fruits
30. Assists
31. Booth
32. Dad
35. 9th letter of the Greek alphabet
36. Star Trek's "Data": _____ Spiner
37. Salary
38. Garland
39. Blessings
40. A liturgical headdress
41. Memorial mounds of stones
43. Thin layer glued to inferior wood
44. Graduates
46. Castrate
47. Misrepresents
48. Wicked
49. Undergarment
52. Cowl
53. Libellous
56. Burden
57. Tip over
58. Pretentious talk
59. Repose
60. Breaks
61. Color of black ink
2. Caustics
3. Products of human creativity
4. Deface
5. Bigot
6. Very small amounts
7. Smile
8. Prefix indicating the ear
9. Lankiest
10. Fuel oil (2 words)
11. Look forward to
12. Vestibule
13. Small playful sprite
23. A city in the Asian part of Russia
24. Second letter of the Greek alphabet
25. Sub-atomic particles
26. Correspondence
27. A slender woodwind instrument
28. Marked by precise accordance with details
29. Dignified conducts
31. Danish currency unit
33. Monster
34. Person of equal status
36. Genus of the palmyra palm
37. Breeze
40. Riotous fight
42. In the middle of
43. Open grasslands in southern Africa
44. Detest
45. African country Sierra _____
46. Spanish lime
48. Fluid vessels in a body
49. A desirable state
50. Twice-baked bread
51. Pale gray
54. Licenced Practical Nurse
55. Run Batted In