Daily American Crossword

11 November

Across

1 Get ahead of
5 Dobbin's diet
9 Georgia city
14 "Haus" wife
15 Affectionate attention
16 Publicity item, for short
17 Huckleberry ___
18 Sin
20 Genghis Khan follower
22 A potent beginning
23 Pitch-black
24 Unsmiling
26 Tel ___
28 Hidden supply
30 Degrades
34 Osso ___
37 Delivery by parachute
39 Peter ___ Tchaikovsky
40 "Eureka!"
41 It's spotted in a zoo
43 Fri. preceder
44 Donkey
46 Command on a submarine
47 Conductor Riccardo
48 Small crustacean
50 Bossa nova relative
52 Pod contents
54 Sleeping spots
57 "True __"
60 Plant used in making poi
62 Satellite-tracking program
64 "The Hundred and One Dalmatians" author
67 Caravel of Columbus
68 Put up with
69 Chess conclusion
70 Road to Rome

71 Alpine call
72 Berth place
73 Geneva research ctr.

Down

1 Fizzling-out sound
2 La Scala solos
3 ___ Domingo (Caribbean capital)
4 "The ___ Rises"
5 Autumn mo.
6 1922 D. H. Lawrence novel
7 Bygone London transport
8 1990-91 World Grand Prix champion
9 Fuel economy letters
10 Touchdown
11 Film maker Joel or Ethan

12 City on the Irtysh
13 A bit too interested
19 Hindu god
21 In post-career mode: Abbr.
25 Constituted
27 Annotation abbreviation
29 Indians of Arizona
31 In ___ (at the original place)
32 Authentic
33 Feng __
34 Barbara, to friends
35 "Nope!"
36 Author John Dickson ___
38 Tenor Luciano
41 Capital of Togo
42 San ___ (Riviera resort)

45 Dangerous current
47 Kind of lodge
49 Butter bits
51 Good for Guillaume
53 Actress Emma
55 Commonplace
56 More level-headed
57 Aussie greeting
58 "___-Man" (1974 spy/sci- fi film)
59 "___ it my way"
61 100 dinars
63 "Drat!"
65 Conger, e.g.
66 Jitterbug's "cool"