Daily American Crossword

7 January

Across

1 By and by
5 "Return of the Jedi" creature
9 Miss by __
14 Hit the sauce
15 Ceremony
16 Writer Runyon
17 Type of western
19 Florida resort
20 "Guitar Town" singer Steve
21 Showed off
23 Changed
25 Matisse or Rousseau
26 Bear
28 Frank
31 Painter Mondrian
34 Paint poorly
36 Barrel slat
37 Bonehead
38 Sickeningly sentimental
40 Soak
41 "It's A Wonderful Life" director
43 Nearly
44 MacLachlan of "Twin Peaks"
45 Chirps
47 Vast expanse
49 Get ready for battle again
51 Humidor items
55 Pompous and showy
58 Madonna role
59 Slow, musically
60 Drunkenness
62 The I in ICBM
63 Subterfuge

64 Scrutinize
65 Churls
66 Matured
67 Protagonist

Down

1 Befuddled
2 Prickly pear
3 Dizzying pictures
4 Disregard
5 Before, to Byron
6 Introverted
7 Director Preminger
8 The K of RKO
9 Reprimand

10 Simenon's detective
11 Phantom
12 Capital of Togo
13 Author Bagnold
18 Greek counterpart of Juno
22 Moist droplets
24 Mother of the Valkyries
27 Japanese novelist Mishima
29 Daredevil Knievel
30 Nerve network
31 Concordat
32 Middle of Caesar's saying
33 Zamenhof's language
35 Influential person
38 Bullfighters

39 Where the Mets play
42 Leave orbit
44 Dishonest
46 __ Lanka
48 Maintain
50 "First Lady of the Screen" Shearer
52 Female relative
53 Rose oil
54 Decline
55 Smooth-talking
56 Clinton's attorney general
57 Close-fitting
61 Night spot?