ACROSS 1. A vaulted recess on a building 5. Gusto 10. Plate 14. Talon 15. Put up with something 16. Native of Peru 17. Astronomical instruments 19. Biblical garden 20. Deplete 21. Not false 22. Choosing 24. Encounter 25. Avers 26. Decapitate 29. Intensely bad 30. Step 31. Murmured lovingly 32. An affirmative gesture 35. Tooter 36. Small slender gulls 37. An extended journey 38. Utilize 39. Leases 40. A genus of Mediterranean herbs 41. Baits or mocks 43. Fat 44. Apparel 46. To the windward side 47. Change for the better 48. Ancient Middle-eastern kingdom 49. Supersonic transport 52. A river in England 53. Having unsuitable feminine qualities 56. Body plasmas 57. Anagram of "Tenor" 58. Shivering fit 59. Scoundrel 60. Examinations 61. Chats
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	1. 5th book of the New Testament 2. Humble request 3. Minute floating marine tunicate 4. Female sheep 5. Sanctified 6. Approximately 7. Tube 8. A lyric poem 9. Answers 10. Calorie-counter 11. Native 12. Vista 13. Strings up	18. Place 23. Appealed earnestly 24. Average 25. Long periods of geologic time 26. British Thermal Unit 27. God of love (Greek mythology) 28. Until now 29. Classes by kinds 31. 100 in a dollar 33. An exclamation of pain 34. A low heavy horsecart 36. Rundown apartment house 37. Tall woody plant	39. A river in northwestern Germany 40. Oleoresin 42. Unkeyed (music) 43. Produced by large fires 44. A serious accident 45. Dike 46. Alarm 48. Newts 49. Heroic tale 50. Half a ticket 51. T T T T 54. Enemy 55. Hen-peck