ACROSS 1. Stave 6. Possessing the necessary skills 10. Peril 14. Estate 15. Stopper 16. A famous American canal 17. Additional 18. Minute opening of the skin 19. Walking stick 20. Jokes 22. Writing fluids 23. Feel unwell 24. One who uses a computer keyboard 26. To the opposite side 30. Ancient Assyrian city 32. Crucifix 33. Singer Fitzgerald 35. Weaving machines 39. Assertion 41. Not subtract 42. Acclaim 43. A group of south Pacific islands 44. Bobbin 46. Seaweed 47. Bovine mammary gland 49. An oblong cream puff 51. Tormentor 54. Avenue (abbrev.) 55. An Egyptian deity 56. Conceivable 63. Withered 64. Alley 65. Anagram of "Nooks" 66. Collections 67. King of the jungle 68. Useful 69. Historical periods 70. A thin strip of wood 71. Supporting horizontal timbers
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	1. Fish duck 2. Cab 3. Picnic insects 4. Front part of a vessel 5. Altercation 6. Dismay 7. An alliance of countries 8. Lie in wait 9. Excretes 10. Inverse 11. Pertaining to modern day Persia 12. Water basins 13. Sap or marrow	21. Go up 25. Christmas time 26. Circle fragments 27. Pepsi or Coke 28. Wander 29. Offensiveness 30. Tree of the genus Alnus 31. Marquis de ____ 34. Roman household god 36. Leaf of the talipot palm 37. Wise men 38. A sun 40. Constructed	45. A tribe of Israel 48. Boring tools 50. Count of the population 51. A piece of armor to protect thighs 52. Chieftain 53. Heart artery 54. Representative 57. Letters 58. Dwarf buffalo 59. Against 60. Cook water 61. Bum around 62. Anagram of "Seek"