Across

1. Small drum

6. Not this

10. To tax or access

14. Identical

15. Part in a play

16. By mouth

17. Oddity

18. Eternity

19. Central area

of a church

20. Severe

22. Stair

23. Too

24. Sell abroad

26. Cleave

30. A Hebrew letter

31. Type of whiskey

32. Type of sword

33. Skin disease

35. Anagram of “space”

39. Cavort

41. Clayware

43. In base 8

44. Transport commercially

46. Urine component

47. Tear

49. Lyric poem

50. Absorbs

51. Handgun

54. Arid

56. Anagram of “dome”

57. Beautiful

63. Alley

64. Where two pieces meet

65. Twined

66. Part of a comparison

67. Wise men

68. Improve

69. Classify

70. Beers

71. Cantankerous

Down

1. Engineering school

2. Shade of blue

3. Prickle

4. Placed

5. Hello or goodbye

6. Conducts business

7. Square dance

8. ___ vera

9. Given to sympathy

10. An overall summary

11. Muse of love poetry

12. Hoarder

13. Napped

21. Communion table

25. A covered garden walk

26. Start over

27. Sweeping story

28. Where a bird lives

29. Division

34. Skin layer

36. Relating to aircraft

37. Kind of school

38. Nestling hawk

40. Hodgepodge

42. A drama set to music

45. Captive

48. A fourth state of matter

51. Animal hides

52. Potato state

53. Submarine detector

55. Panache

58. Blue-green

59. Docile

60. Frosts

61. Blow off steam

62. Countercurrent