L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Take to the cleaners

5 Lay low

8 Pretty companion?

14 Windows alternative 15 Drop the ball

16 Dragster's wheels

17 Wedding ring?

18 Class-conscious org.?

19 Charge

20 “Wow!” (2)

22 Actress Kate (2)

24 Cal. column (2)

25 Univ. aides (1)

28 Damage (1)

30 Helpless? (1)

32 Infamous Amin

33 Constriction of the eye's pupil

35 Apple's apple, e.g.

39 Hail, to Hadrian

40 All over again

41 “I'll second that”

42 Result of polar ice melt graphically shown by the second part of six twopart puzzle answers

47 Isn't idle

48 Deep blue

49 Track meet segment

50 Authenticity emblem

51 Parlor furniture item

53 Hot time in Haiti 54 Sinusitis docs (2)

56 Author Fleming (2)

57 Sign of nerves, maybe (2)

58 Happy hour spot (1)

61 Many an Omani (1)

63 Remaining loan amt. (1) 65 Individually

67 Dug, with “up”

69 Big times

73 A through E, at times

74 Sprout

75 Courteous

76 Snares with a loop

77 Med. show locales

78 Serve sparingly, with “out”

DOWN

1 “Say what?”

2 Dedicatee of Lennon's “Woman”

3 McCartney's title

4 Checkup

5 Applying a temporary tattoo

6 Boiling state

7 Scotch serving

8 Seven Wonders lighthouse

9 One from town

10 “Yada yada yada” letters

11 Jack-in-the-pulpit family

12 Fair 13 First place?

21 Mideast capital

23 Faulkner's “__ Lay Dying”

25 Pageant toppers

26 It may be unsolicited

27 Daybreak?

29 Agile deer

31 Norse patron

34 Hard work

36 Fare filled and folded

37 Trattoria desserts

38 With no guarantee of payment

43 Cartography dot

44 Against

45 Reluctant risers

46 Barack's 2010

High Court appointee

51 Emphasize

52 That, in Tijuana

55 Snack chip

58 Much more than a sniffle

59 Samoa's capital

60 Purges (of)

62 One may be stored in a barn

64 Advance

66 Sci-fi staples

68 Blacken, in a way

70 Copacabana city

71 Commonly torn ligament, briefly

72 Note