1. Fertile areas in deserts
6. Impart knowledge
11. A small drink of liquor
14. Armada
15. Consent
16. Genus of macaws
17. One who whips
19. Sack
20. Impoverished
21. Repent
23. Distinct feature or element
27. Excuses
28. Fractions of a second
32. Model of excellence
33. Persists
34. Sheep sound
37. Shut forcefully
38. Half-diameters
39. Shopping center
40. Collection or series
41. A class or style of writing
42. A major division in a long poem
43. Preschool
45. Mean
48. Guarantee
49. Frogs
50. Purity of gold
53. A climbing vine
54. Counting
60. Meadow
61. Connecting points
62. Furniture for eating
63. Moose
64. A short low gruff noise
65. Positive electrode
2. Entirely
3. Ocean
4. Electro-encephalogram
5. A pattern used to reproduce text or images
6. Story
7. Mild expletive
8. Pretentious
9. Chief Executive Officer
10. Foreshadows
11. A wealthy man
12. Pertaining to modern day Persia
13. Errand boys
18. Permits
23. Awry
24. Move sideways
25. Ruffle
26. Ancient Middle-eastern kingdom
27. Against
29. A type of African antelope
30. Anagram of "Cedar"
31. Withe
34. A family of African languages
35. Change
36. Without company
38. Tear
39. The Red Planet
41. A Chinese herb
43. Child
44. Cog
45. Useful
46. Book of fiction
47. A small canoe
50. Spiral-horned African antelopes
51. Ends a prayer
52. Repose
55. "Neither ___"
56. A browning of the skin
57. Anagram of "Bio"
58. Not young
59. Born