Daily American Crossword

11 March

Across

1 Contraction contraction
5 Disparaging remark
9 Abel's killer
13 Kitchen implement
15 "Women and Love" author
16 Avonlea girl
17 Originate
18 "__ for All Seasons"
19 Tree trunk
20 Entice
21 Ran through
23 Response to "Sooey!"
25 Merriment
26 Inside information
29 Dinero
31 Italian count?
33 Drain for the rain in Spain
37 Guff
38 Honorable
41 Rent
42 McGregor of "Trainspotting"
44 Constellation between Cassiopeia and Pisces
46 Chicago airport
49 Battlement opening
50 Zone
53 Stimulate
54 Unnecessary
57 Pulsate
61 Producer De Laurentiis
62 Onetime UK airline
63 Sycophant
64 Memo starter
65 "__ La Douce"
66 Let in

67 New Mexico art colony
68 Normandy city
69 Reciprocal of cosecant

Down

1 Get __ on the back
2 Denuded
3 Edge
4 Answer
5 Ocean predator
6 Caustic substance
7 Bryce Canyon locale
8 Go back on a promise
9 Trip in a taxi
10 Winning margin

11 Shoreline irregularity
12 Poverty-stricken
14 Entourage
22 Battery size
24 Russian refusal
26 Certainly
27 Be cognizant of
28 Smidgen
29 Pickle juice
30 Shipping dept. stamp
32 Start of a whaler's cry
34 Clip-fed submachine gun
35 Fair attraction
36 October birthstone
39 Part of the foot

40 Lynn or Swit
43 Ideas
45 Procedures
47 Brick carrier
48 Language of the Koran
50 1978 Nobelist with Begin
51 Lloyd Webber musical
52 One thousand escudos
53 "__ Work It Out"
55 Cold wind along the Adriatic Sea
56 Pathetic
58 Branches
59 Chief Norse deity
60 Data unit