1. Concludes
5. Defrost
9. Mire
13. Plunder
14. Shield
16. Shortly
17. Mother
18. Make less sharp
19. Tardy
20. Wedges
22. Change of life for a woman
24. Pesky insects
26. Pertaining to the Sun
27. Senselessness
30. Celestial sphere
33. Authorizing officials
35. Church council
37. Not against
38. Colonic
41. Loving murmur
42. Willow
45. Photocopying
48. Alibi
51. Huge
52. Skulls
54. "Your majesty"
55. Servants
59. Synagogue scroll
62. Absent Without Leave
63. African virus
65. Adhesive strip
66. Start over
67. A single-masted ship
68. Bit of gossip
69. Biblical garden
70. Type of sword
71. To tax or access
2. Ark builder
3. Sadistic mistress
4. Endurance
5. Bar bill
6. Steering mechanism for a vessel
7. Chills and fever
8. Sieve
9. Nonsense
10. Two-toed sloth
11. Camp beds
12. Leg joint
15. Filched
23. Friends
25. Anagram of "Ties"
27. Data
28. Hangman's knot
29. Hankering
31. Burn
32. Middays
34. Gender
36. Venician magstrate
39. Japanese apricot
40. Not legs
43. Troop formation
46. Leave out
47. Dry
49. Satisfies
50. Comestible
53. A large ladle
55. Risk
56. Was indebted
57. Style
58. Blackthorn
60. Mimics
61. Skirt lines
64. Simian