1. River in France
6. Christmas
10. A certain playing card
14. Common viper
15. The handle of a weapon
16. Acquire deservedly
17. Concepts
18. Monster
19. Chocolate cookie
20. Tenderness
22. Verse writer
23. Earl Grey or orange pekoe, for example
24. Eccentrics
26. Afire
30. Different
32. Not fatty
33. South American country
35. Adjust
39. Very thin
41. Annual General Meeting
42. A passenger ship
43. Sound
44. Immense
46. Area
47. A place of safety
49. Envisage
51. Pace
54. For each
55. Not warm
56. Amends
63. Genus of the dogfish
64. Press laundry
65. A former Portuguese colony
66. Animal skin
67. Dossier
68. Airborne
69. Nature of being
70. Shout
71. Detect
2. Taro
3. Anagram of "Diem"
4. A low tide
5. Artificial and inferior
6. A Bantu language
7. Wise men
8. Type of hairstyle
9. Odor
10. Endanger
11. Brother of Moses
12. Brook
13. Fastenings
25. Not fake
26. Seaweed
27. Boyfriend
28. Praise
29. Utterly destroy
30. Keyboard instrument
31. Antacid brand
34. Cornice
36. Dwarf buffalo
37. Closely confined
38. Oak or birch
40. Frog
48. Prove true or correct
50. Not comedies
51. In a way, a kind of goat
52. Books
53. Churns
54. Committee
57. A famous American canal
58. A survey of public opinion
59. Story
60. Symbol
61. Louts
62. Memo