DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1) _ and crafts

5) Blew it

10) Hawaiian tuber

14) Booty

15) Eccentric

16) Eurasia's_ Mountains 17) 0. Henry's "The Gift of the "

18) Fussy director's order 19) Split apart

20) Fractional amount

23) Certain bridge players 24) Type of wrench

25) Attire

28) Stride

30) "_ it the truth!"

31) Word with "case" or "well"

33) Lingerie item

36) Cassette, videotape or CDR, e.g.

40) Expected any second 41) Related maternally

42) Thing on a list

43) Micronesian island 44) City on the Rio Grande

46) Utah lilies

49) To the rear, at sea

51) Parts of the digestive system

57) All worked up

58) The hard stuff

59) Continental cash

60) Blue hue

61) One taking it easy

62) Bypass

63) Raptor over the coast 64) Successfully persuades

65) Their job is ball bearing

DOWN

1) Money for the poor 2) Wander

3) Forum wear

4) Kind of heel

5) Go by, as time

6) His work had many meanings

7) Lion's calls

8) Beyond grand 9) Fraction of a newton 10) Snapping creature

11) "It's been _ pleasure" 12) Place for testing missiles

13) From days of yore

21) "Well, _-di-dab!"

22) Abalone shell lining 25) It may say "I'm sorry" 26) In_ of (replacing)

27) "_ bitten, twice shy" 28) It may come over a

PA

29) Order between "ready" and "fire"

31) "Anna and the King" country

32) Blockbusting producer?

33) Angler's hope

34) Felt bad about

35) Bullets and such, briefly

37) Employ again

38) Fingerprint alternative, to a detective

39) Most in need of a nice bath

43) Stare with amazement

44) Some sci-fi weaponry 45) Astern

46) List of candidates

47) Avid

48) Reveal that one's in pain

49) Lagoon surrounder 50) Gemstone mounting 52) African wading bird 53) Lymph bump

54) Cook on a turntable, in slang

55) Name of a noted canal or lake

56) Absorbs (with "up")