Daily American Crossword

May 26

Across

1 It's a bit higher than A
6 Builder's backing
10 Shore catch
14 Greek-salad ingredient
15 Online auction site
16 "King of the road"
17 Sour fruit
18 Not feeling
19 Actress Lenska
20 In a halfhearted way
22 Extols
24 Put off
26 Magazine filler
27 Rescued damsel's cry
30 Break up
32 Accomplishment
33 Connecticut campus
35 Much, in music
39 Vehicle for hire
40 Admire a lot
42 Berne's river
43 Game of kings and queens
45 Emblem of innocence, in art
46 Bug-eyed
47 "Surprise Symphony" composer
49 Strait-laced
51 Summer capital of the Philippines
54 Feminist writer Germaine
56 Exercise in vanity
58 Happy comparison?
62 Biography
63 Jazz trumpeter Baker
65 The Old South
66 Become tiresome
67 "Daily Planet" reporter

68 Consolidate
69 At this point
70 Rock rhythmically
71 Attacks with snowballs

Down

1 Door fastener
2 Exit quickly
3 Drooping
4 Circumvented
5 "___ is the Night"
6 Weill's wife
7 ___ Dhabi (Gulf emirate)
8 Press down, as pipe tobacco
9 Crossbreed

10 "Wrap" artist
11 Awaken
12 More competent
13 "My dad's bigger than your dad," e.g.
21 Bridges in movies
23 Japanese cartoon art
25 Shouting
27 1700, on a monument
28 "She Loves You" word
29 Greek goddess of youth
31 Oscar-winner Patricia
34 "___ Lang Syne"
36 Brings up the rear
37 New Mexico art colony
38 Bacchanal

40 Light ___ (ethereal)
41 Sorts
44 Sleep
46 El Al, e.g.
48 Fox hunting cry
50 Study, with "on"
51 Shakespeare's Sir Toby
52 Limber
53 Attempt
55 Moth-eaten
57 "What a relief!"
59 Leaf angle
60 Breach
61 Accordion parts
64 "Bambi" aunt