ACROSS 1. Nature of being 5. Stitch 8. Hebrew month 12. At a distance 13. Collection of maps 15. Identical 16. A period of discounted prices 17. Boxlike 18. Religious song 19. Made worse 22. A period 23. Attempt 24. Close by 26. Bother 29. Skin irritations 31. Local Area Network 32. Two fours 34. An Australian "bear" 36. A polite way of interrupting 38. Slang for cocaine 40. A giant slain by Odin (Norse mythology) 41. Simplified 43. An anesthetic 45. Etcetera (abbrev.) 46. A narrow channel of the sea 48. Cedes 50. Gripped 51. South-southeast 52. Hasten 54. Unmemorable 61. Backside 63. Depart 64. A secluded place 65. Ice pellets 66. Cut 67. A river in central Europe 68. A Freudian stage 69. Marsh 70. Accomplishment
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	1. Lack of difficulty 2. A city in Tunisia 3. Hall 4. Constructs 5. Counterfoil 6. A Tuscan island 7. Delay 8. Residue from a fire 9. Fantasized 10. Ammunition (slang) 11. Lease 13. A type of plastic 14. Smell	20. Gaelic 21. Floor of a ship 25. A sailor's hello 26. Laughs 27. Knock out gas 28. Type of heron 29. Scratchy 30. Narrow openings 31. Where a chemist works 33. Cap 35. Circle fragment 37. Muck 39. Backside	42. Young cow 44. Repose 47. Images of deities 49. Inclined 52. Laughs 53. Modern day Persia 55. Coral island 56. Donated 57. Not odd 58. The main stem of a tree 59. A rounded subdivision of an organ 60. Supplemented with difficulty 62. L