1. What we read or speak
6. Sharpens
11. Disney mermaid
12. A pasta dish
15. Headgear for a horse
16. Pitchmen
17. F
18. Version
20. Consume
21. Placed
23. Permits
24. Extinct flightless bird
25. Killer whale
26. Accompanying
27. Heredity unit
28. To fancy (archaic)
29. Derisive laugh
30. Player
31. Like an alligator
34. Codeine source
36. A type of large sandwich
37. Sneaker or pump
41. Twinge
42. Behold, in old Rome
43. Apprehends
44. Large mass of ice
45. Conspiracy
46. At one time (archaic)
47. Ensign (abbrev.)
48. Sunken
51. Frozen water
52. Mercifulness
54. Stimulating drink
56. A spear with three prongs
57. American buffalo
58. Peels
59. Sudden burst
2. Opening
3. Disencumber
4. Expunge
5. Toboggan
6. Apparition
7. Angelic headgear
8. Not odd
9. "___ the season to be jolly"
10. Any unspecified person
13. Boss
14. Within
16. Medical instrument
19. Of a pelvic bone
22. Prancing
24. Estate
26. Objective case of "who"
27. Woman
30. Scoff at
32. Carpet
33. Channels
34. The first event in a series
38. Green bean
39. Lewd
40. Banana oil, e.g.
42. Chooses by voting
44. It holds up trousers
45. Tubular pasta
48. A doe or stag
49. Wanes
50. Journey
53. Actress Lupino
55. An Old Testament king