ACROSS 1. Gemstone 5. Leather strap used to sharpen razors 10. Possessing the necessary skills 14. A small cake 15. Cat sounds 16. A burrowing marine mollusk 17. Sooner or later 19. Cypher 20. So far 21. Monster 22. Descendants of French settlers in Louisiana 24. "Wise" birds 25. Quiver 26. Thin 29. Gleams 30. Longs 31. Daughter of a sibling 32. Vat 35. Picnic insects 36. Female red deer (plural) 37. Challenge 38. Observe 39. Enlisted men 40. Goat-like antelope of central Eurasia 41. Portions 43. Shot 44. Assaults 46. Yield 47. Infractions 48. Sheep sounds 49. Whiskey 52. Musical note 53. Of questionable authenticity 56. Roasting appliance 57. Communicate by letter 58. A bank of earth 59. Where a bird lives 60. Not liquid 61. French for "Without"
	DOWN
	1. Submit to another's will 2. Put a new surface on roads 3. Assist 4. Local Area Network 5. In a self-satisified manner 6. Produced when crying 7. Part portrayed 8. Anagram of "Low" 9. Fortune tellers 10. Acquiesce 11. A discoloration caused by blood 12. Spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle 13. Chieftain	18. Small cities 23. Magic symbol 24. 1 1 1 1 25. Outbuildings 26. Resorts 27. Cattle 28. Bowels 29. Basins 31. 9 9 9 9 33. Impulse 34. Small ball with a whole in the middle 36. Metal cutting tools 37. Citizen of Denmark	39. A cereal marsh grass 40. Foaming 42. Dirge 43. In a sense, adapted 44. Follow up on (2 words) 45. A treasure of unknown ownership 46. Desert "trees" 48. Heat a liquid 49. Goddess of fertility (Greek mythology) 50. Wool 51. Trees of the genus Ulmus 54. Not amateur 55. Public Broadcasting System