Daily American Crossword

9 February

Across

1 Curves
5 Current craze
9 Muscleman
13 Legal drama on TV
15 Footnote abbr.
16 A potent beginning
17 Pottery from Japan
18 Be rewarded at work
20 Sunday in Paris
22 Big name in toys
23 Shoe part
24 Ceases
25 Lubricant
28 Thin strands
29 Keep an eye on
31 Pilot's place
35 __ roll
36 Church book
39 Indian prime minister 1991-6
40 Magician's stick
42 Light boxer
44 Shoals
47 Disregard
48 By unexpressed agreement
51 Lose it
52 Palestinian leader
53 Boxing
57 Mauritius capital
59 Olympic great Comaneci
60 Land in the water
61 Pro __
62 Utter disdain
63 Nurture
64 Algerian port
65 Ultimatum conclusion

Down

1 "Put __ on it!"
2 Branches
3 Buck
4 Malaysian state
5 Proper
6 Common bonnet content?
7 "Vamoose!"
8 "My Cup Runneth Over" singer
9 Lecherous
10 Skips
11 Beginning

12 Physicist Bohr
14 Dark-red winter apple
19 Grate
21 G, F and C
24 Unsportsmanlike
25 Incandescence
26 Author Jaffe
27 Of the dawn
28 "War of the Worlds" author
30 Chewy candy
32 Therefore
33 Cowardly Lion actor
34 Speck

37 J. R. or Bobby
38 Gets back
41 Vagrant
43 Properly positioned
45 List ender
46 Corrida beast
48 Hoglike animal
49 Self-identical flower?
50 "Cheers" waitress
51 Actress Sarandon
53 Pocket bread
54 Object of worship
55 Letter opener
56 Lion's crowning glory
58 Old Mideast ints.