1. Chocolate cookie
5. Yield
9. Retired person
10. Against
11. Hobos
12. Traditional knowledge
13. French for "Word"
14. Contend
16. Hotel
18. Backside
21. ____-Cola
23. Indian dress
24. Industrious
25. Writing table
26. A hard yellow-brown wood
1. Gemstone
2. City in Nevada
3. Ways in
4. Willow
5. Male swan
6. Count
7. Present (at a show)
8. Anagram of "Rest"
15. Cause to overturn
16. Frozen
17. Not a single one
19. Operatic solo
20. ____-tock
22. Noah built one