Crossword puzzle for July 9, 2005

ACROSS
1. Stalk
5. Secret agent
8. Flexible tube
12. Used for smoking
13. Place for concubines and wives
15. Decorates with frosting
16. Dry or parched
17. Chalcedony
18. Glance over
19. Rehabilitation
22. Utilize
23. Type of tree
24. Erode
26. A palace in Paris
29. Guarantee
31. Before
32. Give a speech
34. Braid
36. Powdery starch used as a food thickener
38. A simple seat without a back
40. Picnic insects
41. What bees do
43. Sea eagles
45. C
46. Stableboy
48. A large silver tray
50. Amount lent
51. Hawaiian taro root dish
52. A mountain on Crete
54. Cruelly exercising power over someone
61. Charge per unit
63. A beverage made from apples
64. Concept
65. Ancient Biblical kingdom
66. Steers a ship
67. Obscene
68. Achy
69. Prefix indicating recent or new
70. Nature of being

DOWN

1. Box
2. Rubber wheel
3. Heroic
4. A mixture or pastiche
5. Heroic tale
6. Backside
7. A large hairy humanoid of the Himalayas
8. Not hers
9. Event
10. Oceans
11. Serf
13. Pounds or bashes
14. Cat sounds 20. As well
21. Where a bird lives
25. Subtle emanation
26. Muse of lyric poetry
27. Lawmaker
28. Consumer of food
29. Long periods of geologic time
30. An organic compound made from an alcohol
31. S
33. A prominent rock
35. South southeast
37. Upon
39. Jumpers 42. Happy
44. Fruit of the blackthorn bush
47. Father of Methuselah (Bible)
49. Manly or potent
52. Angers
53. Wainscot
55. Comportment
56. Inactive
57. Jules Verne's captain
58. Mid-month days
59. Important current events of the world
60. Anagram of "Aged"
62. Scottish for "Uncle"

ACROSS 1. Stalk 5. Secret agent 8. Flexible tube 12. Used for smoking 13. Place for concubines and wives 15. Decorates with frosting 16. Dry or parched 17. Chalcedony 18. Glance over 19. Rehabilitation 22. Utilize 23. Type of tree 24. Erode 26. A palace in Paris 29. Guarantee 31. Before 32. Give a speech 34. Braid 36. Powdery starch used as a food thickener 38. A simple seat without a back 40. Picnic insects 41. What bees do 43. Sea eagles 45. C 46. Stableboy 48. A large silver tray 50. Amount lent 51. Hawaiian taro root dish 52. A mountain on Crete 54. Cruelly exercising power over someone 61. Charge per unit 63. A beverage made from apples 64. Concept 65. Ancient Biblical kingdom 66. Steers a ship 67. Obscene 68. Achy 69. Prefix indicating recent or new 70. Nature of being
	DOWN
	1. Box 2. Rubber wheel 3. Heroic 4. A mixture or pastiche 5. Heroic tale 6. Backside 7. A large hairy humanoid of the Himalayas 8. Not hers 9. Event 10. Oceans 11. Serf 13. Pounds or bashes 14. Cat sounds	20. As well 21. Where a bird lives 25. Subtle emanation 26. Muse of lyric poetry 27. Lawmaker 28. Consumer of food 29. Long periods of geologic time 30. An organic compound made from an alcohol 31. S 33. A prominent rock 35. South southeast 37. Upon 39. Jumpers	42. Happy 44. Fruit of the blackthorn bush 47. Father of Methuselah (Bible) 49. Manly or potent 52. Angers 53. Wainscot 55. Comportment 56. Inactive 57. Jules Verne's captain 58. Mid-month days 59. Important current events of the world 60. Anagram of "Aged" 62. Scottish for "Uncle"