ACROSS 1. Chop up 5. Equality 8. Forms on a wound 12. Singer Fitzgerald 13. Open skin infections 15. Cornbread 16. Back 17. Dried plum 18. Picnic insects 19. Repairs 22. Fast plane 23. Our star 24. Valley 26. Not present 29. A distinct feature or element 31. To and ___ 32. Writing tables 34. Assault (2 words) 36. Not sciences 38. Songs for two 40. Magical symbol 41. Despises 43. Increases 45. Drench 46. A musical composition 48. Dug with the snout 50. Being nothing more than specified 51. Not your 52. "Wise" bird 54. Grades for abandoned courses 61. Fruit-filled desserts 63. Motherless calf 64. Operatic solo 65. Nature of being 66. Repaired a shoe 67. Change direction 68. Where birds live 69. Writing tool 70. Perceives visually
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	1. German for "Mister" 2. Downwind 3. Smack 4. Bother 5. Harbor 6. Wild African sheep 7. City in Nevada 8. Resort 9. Hypothesis 10. Initial wager 11. Superlative of "Good" 13. Traversed 14. Dispatches	20. Regretted 21. Drains strength 25. A suggestive look 26. A handwoven wall hanging 27. Fathomless 28. Genus of hemlock spruce 29. Abuzz 30. Strengthened (muscles) 31. 4th note in do-re-mi 33. A New Zealand parrot 35. Mesh 37. Western Samoan monetary unit 39. Spied	42. Indian dress 44. The immaterial part of a person 47. Has a disposition to do something 49. Goodies 52. Not closed 53. Intelligent 55. A house for chickens 56. Look amorously 57. Comportment 58. Not false 59. Ireland 60. French for "Without" 62. Collection