Daily American Crossword

14 February

Across

1 Pants
6 Smooth-talking
10 Rebbe's locale
14 Footnote abbr.
15 Better than never?
16 Tableland
17 Oklahoma Indian
18 Polish-American author Sholem
19 Test
20 Eternally
22 Terrorists' prisoner
24 Tarry
26 Chief
27 Aircraft
29 Saxony seaport
31 Meal starter
32 Like custard
34 Damns euphemistically
38 Fall mo.
39 Soft and wet
41 Poetic time of day
42 Nikon rival
44 Ceremony
45 Brother's title
46 Just for laughs
48 Run away
51 Ceramics producer
54 __ but wiser
56 By mistake
58 Going by boat
61 Mother of Apollo
62 Silent assents
64 Flower
65 Attraction
66 Actress Merrill

67 Jeweler's eyeglass
68 Measure
69 Shut loudly
70 German industrial city

Down

1 Make a mistake
2 Lhasa __
3 Composer Alessandro or Domenico
4 Columbiform bird
5 Singer Nicks
6 Hostile look
7 Vegas opening
8 Hankering

9 See
10 Czech composer
11 Group of six
12 Grammar subject
13 Less convincing, as an excuse
21 Footnote abbr.
23 Gone to pot
25 Gets back
27 Small lake
28 Spike
30 Best-selling computer game
33 Esteemed teacher
35 Very wicked
36 Microbe

37 Piece of cake
39 Not so loco
40 Ibsen's Gabler
43 French auto
47 Palm leaves
49 Fit to be eaten
50 Stringed instruments
51 Medication
52 Leading by a point
53 Aquarium acquisition
55 Tea-growing state
57 Stir up
59 Terse refusal
60 Govt. agents
63 Some forensic evidence