Daily American Crossword

8 January

Across

1 Manhandled
6 Desire
10 Breeze
14 Together
15 Cod's cousin
16 Central point
17 See-through wrap
18 Desert dignitary
19 Covering
20 Exceptional
22 Ridicule
24 Negotiation
26 Gardener's flags
27 Mother of Dionysus
30 When expected
32 Extol
33 Adjutant
35 Circumnavigator Sir Francis
39 Sea monster
40 Genial
42 Ten in Toulon
43 "Fiddlesticks!"
45 Frisky
46 Roll call response
47 Exuberant cry
49 Peaceful
51 Globe
54 Discussion group
56 Actress Weld
58 Base
62 Analogy words
63 Rich soil
65 Lubricated
66 Close friend
67 Classification
68 "__ the body electric"

69 Hoopla
70 Tended to the weeds
71 Reimburse

Down

1 Mountain route
2 Letters of urgency
3 Sported
4 Passed, as laws
5 Saying it isn't so
6 Marine snail
7 "__ the Walrus" (Beatles song)
8 Take some off the top
9 Showing extreme courage

10 More sinuous
11 Short letters
12 Put on a pedestal
13 English diarist
21 Shake like __
23 Unrefined
25 Carbonated quaff
27 Hardly haute cuisine
28 Spikes
29 A lot
31 Colo. neighbor
34 Assuming that's true ...
36 South Yemen port
37 Soprano Te Kanawa
38 Corporate VIP

40 Oscar, maybe
41 Untruthful
44 Magnificent
46 Woman's name containing another
48 Soundness
50 "The Bathers" painter
51 1991 Wimbledon champion
52 Brashly presumptuous
53 Excited
55 Prepared for a shoot
57 Fluctuate
59 Aberration
60 Singer Horne
61 Jittery
64 Simian