Themed Crossword Puzzle Examples

Clues:

Across:

1) St. Nick poem writer
4) One of Santa's reindeer
10) ___ Fi
11) New
12) Rowing necessity
13) Writer Fitzgerald
16) Go bad
18) "Little women" writer
19) Salvation Army (abbr.)
20) Deja __
21) Get up
22) "__ tu, Brute"
23) Character in "Little women"
25) One of the mediums through which the Transcendentalists thought they could find divine truth
26) Blackbeard's probable real name
28) British thanks
30) John ___ (frequent litigant!)
31) Writer, Thoreau
34) Another reindeer
36) War of 1812 contestant
37) Pages
39) Mamma ___, Abba song
40) Conditional
42) One of the major fighting locations for WW I doughboys (2 words)
45) Historical record
48) Evolutionary keyword
50) Quijote's title
51) Plaything
52) 5 down General
53) Forcing out
55) Go off course
56) Paleo Indians once live in the land now covered by this state area
57) Skin mark
59) Political unit that made January 1st the beginning of the year
63) Guy
64) Island where English explorers landed in 1584
67) Druid sacrifice site
69) New York's advertising avenue
70) Writing surfaces

Down:

1) Transcendentalists' center of activity
2) Spanish gold
3) Bay
4) Plunderer at sea
5) The most bloody battle of the Civil War
6) Maine is a state in this area of the US
7) Another reindeer
8) Rob ___: Scottish highland hero
9) Site for Mademoiselles in WW I
14) Eccentric wheel
15) Charles Jenkins and John Baird were its pioneers
17) It became a state in 1859 (abbr.)
22) Life prefix
24) Over there, old way
27) 12th century Pope (2 words)
29) Around 60 per cent of the world's population lives here
32) New York time
33) Surprise attack
35) Blackbeard right hand man, Israel
37) Pied _____
38) Historic settlement in north west Iowa
41) State named after the Spanish Easter feast
43) Blackbeard's killer
44) Thanksgiving promoter
46) Negative
47) Treaty ratifiers
49) Pirate, Stede ____
54) "Kill Bill" star
58) Profit or French king?
60) East Kansas, for short
61) Divider
62) Railway
63) Job
65) Because
66) French Quartertown, for short
68) Moral strength, in Confucianism