Daily American Crossword

20 August

Across

1 Prelude to a duel
5 Discontinue
9 Parting words
14 "Gone With The Wind" plantation
15 Lord
16 Capital of Vietnam
17 Reached
19 Actor-director Welles
20 Former Mrs. Trump
21 Pair
23 Tree trunk
24 In a mean manner
26 Motown, for one
28 Skip over
30 Least adorned
33 Storage structure
36 Fiji's capital
38 __ Domingo
39 Seine's contents
40 Reddish-orange
42 Trophy
43 Objet d'art
45 Chief city of northern Nigeria
46 Greek goddess of youth
47 Deli necessity
49 Japanese warrior
51 Rice dish
53 Baloney
57 Whirl
59 City of the Philistines
61 Bellini opera
62 Greek underworld
64 Shrubby thicket
66 "__ my case"
67 Price exacted

68 Barbed
69 Untidy
70 Paris airport
71 Primitive dwellings

Down

1 Mark
2 Grub
3 Wall hanging
4 Given a coat
5 JFK's predecessor
6 Blue-billed bird
7 Endorse
8 Flower part
9 Gloating cry

10 Hanna's partner
11 Impertinence
12 Implement
13 Trig. ratio
18 Colorado resort
22 Light stroke
25 "Mona __"
27 Lively party
29 French mineral water
31 Stumpy remnant
32 Hit the sauce
33 Brief moments
34 Drag
35 Greek tragedian
37 Best Film of 1977

40 Book before Amos
41 Britain's Blair
44 Unfriendly quality
46 Bronte sisters' home village
48 Disdained newspaper
50 1806 victory for Napoleon
52 Ipso __
54 Pianist Claudio
55 Agent 86
56 Stops
57 Wedge-shaped insert
58 Peel
60 Hammer-hurling god
63 Pigpen
65 Travel a route regularly