LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Teensy

5 Box for tea leaves 10 Japanese box lunch

15 Tree with an oil-rich seed 16 Streamlined

17 Frank __ Wright

18 “Long time no see” follower

20 Old enough

21 “Lady and the __”

22 Traffic signals

24 Possesses

25 Stage of grief

26 Smartens (up) 28 Manhattan liquor

29 Full of activity

34 “Ben-Hur” extras

37 “Now it's clear” 38 Sonogram subject

39 Sticks (out)

42 Had a nice chitchat

44 __ out a living

45 Ahead

47 Not for kids, filmwise 49 One whose wages come from wagers

50 Slugger Hank

51 Feel crummy 54 Rum-flavored cakes 56 River mouth formation

58 Far from friendly

60 Steep headlands 64 With deleted scenes included

65 Passover staple

67 Likely to goof

69 Dam that created Lake Nasser

70 Simoleons

71 Cookie cooker

72 Pork cuts

73 Goad

74 Twitter headquarters?

DOWN

1 Beatty/Hoffman box office flop

2 Sticky

3 Water treatment plant input

4 “I did good!”

5 Fort Collins sch. 6 Actress Jessica

7 One in the headlights? 8 Critter on XING signs 9 Informal “See what I mean?”

10 Come into one's own 11 Pixie

12 Craft for six puzzle answers

13 Rapper whose name sounds like a big cat 14 Poems of praise 19 “A Wrinkle in Time” (2018) actress 23 Electrically connected with

27 Plant firmly

30 “So what?!”

31 Can. neighbor

32 Ref, slangily

33 Last critter in an ABC book

35 TV's “Science Guy”

36 Lawn starter

37 Honshu port

39 Chore

40 “One card left!” game warning

41 12-Down queueing pattern depicted by six puzzle answers

43 Corn unit

46 Science fair awards 48 Ultimately become

51 Nook

52 58-Down default music program

53 Under the surface

55 “So I was wrong!” 57 Defunct scandal-plagued company

58 Apple computer

59 Toll lane choice

61 Throat trouble

62 Kissable fairy-tale critter 63 Unaccompanied

66 Ray gun sound

68 Legged it