ACROSS 1. Wanes 5. Intercontinental Ballistic Missile 9. 10 cent coins 14. Region 15. Challenge 16. An insect in its final adult stage 17. Small rounded bread 18. Burden 19. A protective garment 20. Quiet 22. Marijuana (slang) 23. Sport of shooting at clay pigeons 24. Prefix indicating "Water" 26. Liturgical vestment 29. Roam 33. Construction of a building 38. Hire 39. Look lasciviously 40. Amounts lent 42. Melody 43. Highly seasoned sausage 45. Nodded, for example 47. A palace in Paris 48. Center of a hurricane 49. Saucy 52. Elicit 57. Crosses 60. Proposed as a candidate 63. Dromedary 64. Similar 65. The rise and fall of sea level 66. Get up 67. A bingo-like game 68. Ancient Middle-eastern kingdom 69. Alloy of copper and zinc 70. Style or grace 71. Body plasmas
	DOWN
	1. Acquires deservedly 2. Stream 3. Negate 4. Volcano 5. Image of a deity 6. Walking stick 7. A device used for scrubbing 8. Untidy 9. Illustration 10. Spontaneously 11. A South American hare-like rodent 12. Psyches 13. Male children	21. French for "State" 25. Fancy 27. Showy pendulous flowers 28. Sound of displeasure 30. Make indistinct 31. Solitary 32. Looked at 33. Otherwise 34. Not fake 35. Resembling snake-like fishes 36. Insensitivity 37. Hen-peck 41. Born	44. Childhood disease 46. Adolescent 50. Viper or constrictor, for example 51. Bumpkin 53. Engagements 54. Useful 55. A durable aromatic wood 56. Swelling under the skin 57. Forms on a wound 58. Young salmon 59. Genus of the bowfin fish 61. Tropical Asian starling 62. Knowing a secret (2 words)