Daily American Crossword

22 August

Across

1 Dried coconut meat
6 Lummox
10 O.T. book
14 Prussian lancer
15 Prefix with port
16 Oliver Twist's request
17 Cheerful
18 Is indebted to
19 Malay boat
20 Lady's private room
22 Atheistic
24 14-line verse form
26 Hogfish, e.g.
27 Japanese feudal nobleman
29 Babble
31 Subside
32 Linguist Chomsky
34 Slightest
38 Quarter of M
39 Complex adjective
41 Uncooked
42 "Waiting for Lefty" playwright
44 __ facto
45 Nigerian native
46 Greek underworld
48 Kind of monkey
51 Russian sleigh
54 Still existing
56 Ruling
58 Ring site
61 Get __ writing
62 Prognosticator
64 Customary observances
65 Reside
66 Approximately

67 West Indies, e.g.
68 Lecherous look
69 Ariz. neighbor
70 Cubic meter

Down

1 Contain
2 Mississippi tributary
3 Seemingly true
4 Haphazard
5 Octavian's foe
6 Household task
7 "Ben-Hur" author Wallace
8 Couturier Cassini
9 Repudiate

10 Get ready to fly
11 Nuclei
12 Hybrid
13 Term of a contract
21 A hole __
23 Oddly amusing
25 Schlep
27 Art __
28 Multiple choice choices
30 Ballpark figures
33 Garfield dog
35 Greek philosopher
36 "The Thief of Bagdad" star
37 Pairs

39 Expo '70 site
40 Main artery
43 Turpentine, e.g.
47 "Cheers" star
49 Home of tweed
50 Join the army
51 Warbling sound
52 Knot again
53 Pointed arch
55 Big name in copiers
57 Condition
59 Malty brew
60 To be in Rome
63 Journal conclusion