Conventional

ACROSS

3. November birthstone
8. historic Italian family
9. on the water
10. curling tool
11. acid neutralizers
12. disease
13. old game system
14. peaceful
17. ends mission prematurely
21. offend
22. dies from hunger
24. read thoroughly
28. vague and ambiguous
31. urban bypath
32. approves
33. shabby or dirty
34. inward prefix
35. garbage
36. explosive fuel
37. similarity in sound

1. stick again
2. hallucination
3. shin bones
4. dull or uninteresting
5. formerly Northern Rhodesia
6. colour-deficient organism
7. scented pouch
14. flesh of the head
15. send someone (ex. to doctor's office)
16. niches or crannies
18. wrangle or quarrel noisily
19. wild dancer (or talker)
20. impudent
23. Russian author
25. tenser
26. of help
27. simpler to do
28. past
29. seizes by force
30. entertain richly