L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Diet food phrase

6 Puny pencil

10 __ gin fizz

14 Ancient market

15 Long Island Iced Tea coloring provider

16 Double-decker checker

17 Detergent sold around Yankee Stadium? 19 Village People megahit

20 Good to go

21 Put up

22 Fell off

23 Title characters, typically

25 Tetris shape 26 Chicken __

27 Jingle for

a detergent ad?

33 Stuck, with “down”

35 Game official

36 Mediterranean tourist site

37 “Go team!”

38 Detergent for fishing equipment?

41 Same old routine

42 __ sax

44 Charge

45 Large sea ducks

47 Directors in charge of a detergent?

50 Junior prom attendee

51 G.I. chow 52 “Snowy” bird

54 No-sweat class

57 Copier of old

59 Member of the fam

62 Quickly down

63 Detergent for seasonal cleaning?

65 Kon-Tiki Museum city

66 Acorn droppers

67 Three on a par-five, say

68 Hard on the ears

69 Military outpost

70 Composition for nine

DOWN

1 Bags

2 Fantasy brute

3 Stage illumination

4 Prince Valiant's son

5 Many an offshore bank account

6 Go downhill fast

7 __ the line

8 Film beekeeper

9 Keep out

10 Color named for a natural phenomenon

11 Spot for a nest

12 A while back

13 “Good grief!”

18 Atlantic catch

22 Stately tree 24 Brain scan, for short

25 __ White, Jennifer Hudson's role in the film “Dreamgirls” 26 Fluffy-eared critter

28 Pushy type

29 “V for Vendetta” actor Stephen

30 It may have an arrow

31 Store, as ashes

32 Title pets in a Lilian Jackson Braun mystery series 33 Thin nail

34 “Moll Flanders” novelist

39 Cause of a brewed awakening?

40 Ammonia component

43 “Heavens!”

46 Snider of Twisted Sister

48 Sports __

49 End

53 High-ranking off.

54 Earth Day subj.

55 “Understood”

56 “Mr.” on a sci-fi bridge

57 Film-rating org.

58 Bothers

60 Like much chitchat

61 Borscht vegetable

63 Blubber

64 Confucian path