Daily American Crossword

21 April

Across

1 High-IQ group
6 "La Boheme" role
10 Casement
14 Delon of "Is Paris Burning?"
15 "Exodus" author
16 On a single occasion
17 Go round
18 At one __ swoop
19 Bygone ruler
20 Chamber group member
22 Stein relative
24 Greek architectural style
26 Family members
27 Land of Anatole?
30 Strangely
32 Ludicrous
34 Sordid
38 Sounds of indecision
39 1940s Big-Band leader
41 Brief life?
42 Lot
45 &
48 Hold sway
50 Neighbor of Senegal
51 Evaluate
54 "Plaza __"
56 Imaginary
58 Babble
62 Carryall
63 Slant
65 Nevada skiing locale
66 Daring Knievel
67 Ne plus ultra
68 Negatively charged particle
69 Communists

70 Wholly absorbed
71 Mouth-watering

Down

1 Opp. of fem.
2 Sommer in the cinema
3 It gets hit on the head
4 Rod of "The Twilight Zone"
5 Capital of ancient Syria
6 Civilian clothes
7 Wrath
8 Soft roe
9 Easter or Christmas?
10 Sort of salmon

11 Down Under soldier
12 A touch of panic
13 Range rovers
21 Furtive one
23 Pop musician Lofgren
25 Newspaper features
27 Bungle
28 Avatar of Vishnu
29 NZ neighbor
31 "Edward Scissorhands" star
33 Crow
35 Quatrain rhyme scheme
36 Skirt length
37 Luke's teacher

40 Norse god of the sea
43 Battlement openings
44 Archaic bidding
46 Gunfire sound
47 "The Bartered Bride" composer
49 Line on a weather map
51 More suitable
52 Jostle
53 Surfeited
55 Underdog's hope
57 Easily-split mineral
59 Not that
60 Spoils
61 Counting-out starter
64 Electric guitar hookup