Daily American Crossword

24 May

Across

1 Encrypted
6 Neill and Nunn
10 Bidder's option
14 Make amends
15 Congeal
16 Turkish title
17 More or less, informally
18 Winglike
19 Train transportation
20 Caught wind of
21 Rake
23 Sour
25 Assumed name
26 "Parsifal" composer
29 Arabian sheikdom
31 Mesmerized
33 To be, for Caesar
37 __ Sutcliffe, early Beatle
38 Tittered
41 Downed
42 Rosemary, e.g.
44 Sad
46 Sappho's Muse
49 Somme place
50 With sharp projecting points
53 Working
54 Subdue
57 Gambling tokens
61 Himilayan humanoid
62 Anti-drug agent
63 Alternative to Doric
64 Stuff
65 "Each Dawn __" (Cagney film)
66 Birthplace of the composer Puccini
67 Novel ending

68 Transmit
69 "__ Frome" (Edith Wharton novel)

Down

1 Bills or coins
2 Missouri River tribe
3 David Copperfield's first wife
4 Contest contestant
5 Dick Francis thriller title
6 Injure with hot liquid
7 "__ Need" (Temptations hit)
8 Biblical kingdom
9 Flow

10 Series opener
11 Anew
12 Bright
13 Oregon's capital
22 It comes in strands
24 Dies __
26 Desire
27 Upfront amount
28 Indian ox
29 Sneeze sound
30 Taunt
32 Fledgling's place
34 Yegg's target
35 Astound
36 Spawning fish

39 E in QED
40 Residence
43 Dirty
45 Lacking
47 Sales worker
48 Very handsome young man
50 "Finnegans Wake" author
51 Prevent
52 Imply
53 Traveled like a tennis lob
55 Go in up to the ankles
56 The Emerald Isle
58 Advance slowly
59 Type size
60 Glance over