| ACROSS |
| 1. | Light colored |
| 5. | Group of languages of East Africa belonging to the Chari-Nile group |
| 8. | Goad |
| 12. | Opinion |
| 13. | Curvy letter |
| 14. | Be tempered by heat |
| 15. | (botany) Usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes |
| 16. | Appease |
| 19. | Shallow baking pan |
| 20. | A female deer |
| 21. | Observe |
| 22. | Master of Engineering Administration (abbr.) |
| 23. | Erase |
| 25. | Reproach for some lapse or misdeed |
| 27. | Nine, plus one |
| 28. | One who makes use of a thing |
| 32. | A group of woodpeckers |
| 38. | Grain storage tower |
| 39. | Passive Optical Network (abbr.) |
| 42. | Bodily heat indicating an inflammation |
| 43. | _ de Janeiro |
| 44. | Baby bed with high sides |
| 46. | NE Massachusetts town |
| 49. | Suttee (variant) |
| 50. | Snakelike fish |
| 52. | Institute legal proceedings |
| 55. | Being or containing an acid |
| 58. | Adept person |
| 61. | Parent Teacher Association (abbr.) |
| 63. | Lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood |
| 64. | Particular pronoun |
| 66. | Innocence, gentleness, or tenderness |
| 69. | Commotion |
| 70. | Actor Baldwin |
| 71. | Order of Saint Francis (abbr.) |
| 72. | Western Nevada city |
| 73. | Raze (variant) |
| 74. | Be seated |
| 75. | Angers |
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| DOWN |
| 1. | Component |
| 2. | Prevent from happening |
| 3. | A young lion |
| 4. | Eastern Standard Time (abbr.) |
| 5. | Lion |
| 6. | United States Postal Service (abbr.) |
| 7. | Flexible twig of a willow tree |
| 8. | University (slang) |
| 9. | 480, 500 or 516 sheets of paper |
| 10. | Yard entry |
| 11. | Ancient Greek colony of southern Italy near the Gulf of Salerno |
| 16. | Plant holder |
| 17. | To separate or throw off |
| 18. | Afternoon social gathering |
| 20. | French philosopher Descartes |
| 24. | Diode which emits light from the p-n junction |
| 26. | Suppuration |
| 29. | Title for a knight |
| 30. | Biblical high priest |
| 31. | A female kangaroo |
| 33. | _-fi |
| 34. | Head covering |
| 35. | Raised railways |
| 36. | Immediately |
| 37. | Three (prefix) |
| 39. | Personal Computers (abbr.) |
| 40. | Mouth or opening |
| 41. | A young louse |
| 45. | Altar cloth linen |
| 47. | To overlay (the ceiling of a building or room) with wood, plaster, etc. |
| 48. | Higher Education for Development (abbr.) |
| 51. | A group of pigs |
| 53. | Uninterruptible Power Supply (abbr.) |
| 54. | Disposition, character, values of a culture |
| 55. | Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord |
| 56. | Music discs |
| 57. | A group of polecats |
| 58. | The sixth month of the Jewish calendar |
| 59. | Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts |
| 60. | Nights before holidays |
| 62. | American National Standards Institute (abbr.) |
| 65. | Greek god of love |
| 67. | Frozen water |
| 68. | Bank Draft (abbr.) |
| 69. | _ Lanka |
