1. "Wise birds"
5. Request
8. Sword
12. Bucket
13. Nap
15. Absorb written material
16. Novice
17. Open-mouthed
18. Backside
19. A period of rising prices and no growth
22. Writing tool
23. Muhammad ___
24. Anagram of "Mean"
26. Plywood layer
29. Spin
31. Blend
32. Bowel cleasing
34. Inebriated
36. Cobras
38. Adolescents
40. Tardy
41. Pentateuch
43. A purposeful surveillance
45. Two short of a dozen
46. Distant
48. Splinter
50. Arid
51. Relative of an ostrich
52. N N N N
54. Flag-waver
61. Agitate
63. First aid attendant
64. Deep sleep
65. Dwarf buffalo
66. French for "Room"
67. At the peak of
68. Transmit
69. It opens a lock
70. Pesters
2. Pause
3. Former Italian currency
4. Motto
5. Seaweed
6. Chair
7. Yachting cap
8. Historical period
9. Cause to continue
10. Lack of difficulty
11. Biblical garden
13. Prominent
14. Spring bloom
21. An aromatic ointment
25. An earthy deposit rich in lime
26. Eyeshade
27. A mathematical statement
28. Christopher of "Superman"
29. Mobs
30. "Come in!"
31. Welcome ___
33. Japanese apricot
35. Barbie's beau
37. Identical
39. The absence of sound
44. City in Peru
47. League members
49. Mr. Spock's planet
52. Memorable periods
53. Not a single one
55. Furniture wood
56. Doing nothing
57. Greasy
58. Bit
59. Urban haze
60. Faucets
62. Young boy