1. Writer of verse
5. Include
8. Cocoyam
12. Backside
13. Mistake
15. Six-stringed instrument
16. Erode
17. Critical
18. Slave
19. Food
22. Chief executive officer
23. Month of ___ober
24. Tropical root
26. Pitching dangerously to one side
29. Move up
31. 18-wheeler
32. Fantasize
34. Cowboy movie
36. They come from hens
38. Bellybutton
40. Expunge
41. Mark of insertion
43. Kidney-related
45. Arrest
46. A short break
48. Accord
50. Stair
51. Prattle
52. Mayday
54. Repair
61. Nile bird
63. Rob
64. Frog
65. Exploded star
66. Clemency
67. Border
68. Accomplishment
69. Wisecrack
70. Caught in the act
2. Chocolate cookie
3. Jacob's brother
4. Fright
5. Part of a foot
6. A musical percussion instrument
7. Lavish affection (on)
8. Biblical first woman
9. Dissatisfaction
10. Completed
11. Margarine
13. A North American time zone
14. Leases
21. Meal in a shell
25. Absorb written material
26. Stogie
27. Belligerent
28. Approaches
29. Catkin
30. Postponement
31. VCR button
33. Blvd.
35. Confederate soldier, for short
37. Religious offshoot
39. Mostly
44. Not fat
47. Paroxysm
49. Lets up
52. A region of southeastern Pakistan
53. Double-reed woodwind
55. Detail
56. A Roman emperor
57. Diplomacy
58. Connecting point
59. For a bird or a hamster
60. Biblical garden
62. Unhappy