Daily American Crossword

27 February

Across

1 Preliminary contest
5 Apportion
9 Coin of Pakistan
14 Wheel support
15 Not an aristocrat
16 To put it briefly
17 Hot days
19 Correspond
20 Keyed up
21 Competes
23 Make bread
24 N. African state
26 Mother-of-pearl
28 Actress Berger
30 Spanish stew
33 Struck, old-style
36 Upholstered couch
38 Farewell
39 Buddy
40 Computer language
42 Baking container
43 Runner-up to Ike
45 Old World fruit tree
46 Fuel from bogs
47 Almost
49 "Jefferson in Paris" star
51 Bind
53 Author Simenon
57 Algonquian language
59 Mother of Castor and Pollux
61 Puppeteer Lewis
62 Powwows
64 Deli option
66 Basket for jai alai
67 Ribald
68 Attitudinize

69 Song of praise
70 Downwind
71 Rushed

Down

1 __ la vista
2 Do extremely well
3 "Merrily we roll __"
4 Minimally worded
5 Speed meas.
6 Alternatives to stairs
7 Actress Hatcher
8 "Barnaby Jones" star Buddy
9 Actress Zadora

10 Incensed
11 Exodus participant
12 One who prefers charges
13 Congregational conclusion
18 Bird bill part
22 Drain of strength
25 __ many words
27 "The Godfather" co-star
29 Gentle stream of song
31 "Star Wars" princess
32 Polly, to Tom
33 Measure
34 Manufactured
35 Uncomfortable
37 Highhandedness

40 Rank partner
41 Proficient
44 Brief solo
46 Maybe
48 Brynner of "The King and I"
50 Throw
52 Ruined city in Jordan
54 Lively old dance
55 Expunge
56 Allied
57 Soviet inits.
58 Satellite of Saturn
60 Twofold
63 Japanese surname suffix
65 Nautical assent