The Word Puzzles

Esther 3 (1)
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ACROSS
1. ___ down and paid honor
6. Move quickly
10. Weapons
14. Saltpeter
15. Advise
16. Saucy person
17. Harass
18. Minerals
19. The Pentateuch
20. Seed of a legume
21. To the kings ___
24. Dance
25. Clublike weapon
26. Salt of iodic acid
28. Deception
31. Catch sight of
32. Evening
33. Emissary
36. Month of ___
40. Combining form meaning " strange "
42. Gone by
43. Wife of Shiva
44. Stepped
45. Stink
48. Not (prefix)
49. The day of the month
51. Haman ___ for a way
53. Excrement
56. Ruin
57. Lair
58. Reflux of the tide
61. Ocean
64. Monetary unit of Peru
66. Hip bones
67. Brings up
69. Student at mixed school
70. Recline in a relaxed manner
71. Inhabitants of Ireland
72. Edible tuber
73. Female sheep
74. Cheerful
 DOWN
1. Summit of a small hill
2. Baseball team
3. Sicilian volcano
4. The Lion
5. Spencer
6. ___ out in the script
7. German Mister
8. Notion
9. Scorn
10. Disposed
11. Dry red wine
12. Worth
13. Phase
22. Skin eruption
23. Dip in liquid
25. Objective case of I
27. Aborigine of Borneo
28. ___ of the edict
29. Affirm with confidence
30. Game of chance
31. English public school
34. At the kings ___
35. Period of human life
37. Unpleasantly moist
38. Drug-yielding plant
39. Outer covering
41. Probability
45. Fixed in position
46. Dressed
47. Pertaining to Homer
50. Consumed
52. Not off
53. The ___ was issued
54. Large jib for yachts
55. Go into
56. Clock faces
59. Sudden misfortune
60. Roofing item
61. To bless
62. Formerly
63. Wan
65. Revised form of Esperanto
68. Period of history