Daily American Crossword

26 December

Across

1 Has a hunch
6 Quaff
10 Captain, informally
14 Phrase of resignation
15 One of Hamlet's options
16 Bone of the forearm
17 Locale of ancient Ur
18 Similar
19 Swiss capital
20 Restrain
22 Disparaged
24 Sagebrush State
26 "Help me __" (Beach Boys hit)
27 More equitable
29 Bangkok residents
31 Jar top
32 Genuine
34 Novarro of silents
38 Afore
39 Church book
41 Mineral source
42 Homework assignment
44 Cried
45 Ballpark figure
46 Pie part
48 Make tracks
51 Low cards
54 Desdemona's faithful servant
56 Taken over, in a way
58 15th century Italian painter
61 Dressed
62 Bronx cheer
64 Actor-director Welles
65 Tortoise rival

66 Don Juan's mother
67 Test
68 Objectives
69 Contradict
70 Actress Jessica

Down

1 Balled-up hand
2 Distant leader
3 Furies, in Greek myth
4 German songs
5 Tried mightily
6 Bear
7 Chinese pan
8 Footnote abbr.

9 Equus and others
10 Secretly
11 Designer Calvin
12 Crimson-clad
13 Bamboo eater
21 Merchandise
23 Cricket sound
25 Jock
27 Run for it
28 Melodies
30 Start of a Web site address
33 Crow calls
35 Subject for St. Thomas Aquinas
36 Kill __ killed
37 Opposite of ja

39 Heat-resistant glass
40 Code of conduct
43 Consents
47 Logging on requirement
49 "Good Wives" author
50 Code word for S
51 Russian country house
52 Zhou __
53 Render defenseless
55 Befuddled
57 Hans Christian Andersen, for one
59 Burden
60 Just
63 Variety of Buddhism