L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “I'm all __ it”: “Yes” 4 Pennies: Abbr.

7 “Later, dude”

10 Mil. strongholds

13 Long Island university 15 Demonic laugh

17 *Official emergency status

18 Month that once was eighth

19 Walked (on)

20 *Angler's skill

22 One getting private lessons

24 Go down to defeat

25 __ Martin: Bond's car

28 Garlicky sauce

32 Frozen over

33 *#1 hit

39 Venue for exercise swimming

41 Old golf club named for its copper alloy-plated face

42 *One who rats to the cops

44 Spanish Mrs.

45 Selassie worshiper

46 Type in

48 Arduous journey

51 In style again

54 *Floater in a luxurious bath 58 “__ end up”

62 Existing independent of experience, in logic

63 List including nachos, sliders, wings, etc . ... and what the starts of the answers to starred clues comprise?

65 Another year of Time, say

66 “Canyon With Crows” artist Georgia

67 '60s radical gp.

68 Antlered beast

69 Opposite of ENE

70 Birthday gift for a tot

DOWN

1 Almanac item

2 Smell often funky

3 Decorate anew

4 Basic technique in EMT training

5 Stealing

6 Move laterally

7 Coll. hotshot

8 Female leadership org.

9 Grub

10 One-named Milanese model

11 If-__: conditional statements

12 NCO nickname

14 Resulted in

16 “MASH” nickname 21 Wine label number

23 7-Up nickname

25 Afflicts

26 Ella's style

27 Wrong-key error

29 Beatles' “Let __”

30 Other, in Oaxaca

31 Car borrowed from a dealer

34 One-footed jumps

35 Landed

36 Whispered “Hey!”

37 The Auld Sod

38 Stern area

40 Trademark Buster Keaton hat with a culinary name 43 Clothing

47 “I didn't do it”

48 Nicholas II was the last of them in Russia

49 Caught, as dogies

50 Gets by working

52 “Funny bone” spot

53 Hardwood trees

55 Boxer Riddick

56 It borders Siberia in the game of Risk

57 Defraud

59 Strain to lift

60 Recon collection

61 Chop __

64 Remote button with left pointing arrows: Abbr.