ACROSS 1. Highest degree attainable 5. Type of Japanese animation 10. Droops 14. Decant 15. Walking sticks 16. An assemblage of parts 17. Origins 19. A small yeast cake 20. Request 21. Trumpet 22. Stableboy 24. Hare-like rodent 25. One who examines processes 26. The right to enter 29. Harpsichord 30. A living duplicate 31. Superior class 32. Frozen water 35. Attached to fingers 36. Writing style 37. A style of jazz singing 38. N N N N 39. After the eighth 40. Type of vine 41. Gives a speech 43. Sorghum 44. A herb of the mustard family 46. Sense 47. Voyage 48. Floating mass of ice 49. Mexican (abbrev.) 52. Hindu princess 53. A zealous advocacy 56. Picnic animals 57. From that time 58. Anagram of "Neat" 59. Desire 60. Opposing groups 61. Golf ball supports
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	1. Capital of Western Samoa 2. Pros and ____ 3. Mud 4. Before 5. Role players 6. Nigerian monetary unit 7. Knowing a secret 8. Adult males 9. A yellow-brown garnet 10. Difficult to detect 11. Deductive 12. Verbal barbs 13. Begin	18. A stage 23. Rational 24. Repair 25. Apelike 26. Dull pain 27. Tribe 28. Not vowels 29. Long narrow openings 31. Sea eagles 33. Walking stick 34. French for "State" 36. Ruthless 37. The lowest timber in a structure	39. Back of the neck 40. Vassal 42. Rape 43. Combines 44. Dried stalks of grain 45. Pertaining to modern day Persia 46. Chain link or barbed wire 48. Musical group 49. A very small arachnid 50. Anglo-Saxon slave 51. Christmas 54. Seven in Roman numerals 55. Permit