Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Place for wet
cannonballs 5 Volcanic rocks 10 Move like a river 14 Vineyard unit 15 Plant used in
tequila production 16 Spencer of “Good
Morning America” 17 Really wiped out 18 Private’s denial 19 Like many resold
items 20 *Teaching aid for learning foreign tongues 23 Tot’s piggy 24 Like an accurate
hockey shot 25 Arbor Day month 27 Brute 30 Tackled, as a
task, with “at” 33 With competence 36 Orderly 38 “__ I lie to you?” 39 Spy org. created
under Truman 40 Appetizer often served with duck sauce 42 Prefix with centric
or caching 43 Dermatologist’s
surgical tool 45 “__ girl!” 46 “Believe” singer 47 Theater guides 49 Sun-related 51 Plunders 53 Died down 57 Place to de-stress 59 *Deep blue
gemstone 62 Angelic glow 64 Dreadlocks
wearer 65 “__ la Douce” 66 Essential point 67 Promotional
connection 68 Black, to a poet 69 Ship’s backbone 70 Mortimer on
Bergen’s knee 71 See 63-Down
DOWN
1 Picasso who painted Gertrude Stein 2 Arctic or Indian 3 Sumatran ape 4 Allow to pass 5 *Superboy’s
girlfriend 6 Intensely excited 7 Ming museum
piece 8 Hometown of
St. Teresa 9 High-ranking
angel 10 Winter ailment 11 *Satisfaction after
setbacks 12 Layered cookie 13 Get one’s
tootsies wet 21 Dubai’s fed. 22 Saloon slugfest 26 Altar words 28 Sonic the Hedgehog game company 29 Small fruit pies 31 Pure joy 32 What the nose
knows 33 Civil rights gp. 34 Skewed view 35 *Cowboy star
with a bullwhip 37 Terrier on the
Yellow Brick Road 40 Filmdom’s Flynn 41 2016 Best Picture (no, wait; it wasn’t!) ... and a fitting place for the answers to starred clues? 44 Fair-hiring letters 46 Comparatively
outlandish 48 Inaugurates 50 Case workers’
org.? 52 Iberian Peninsula
country 54 Supercharger 55 “St. __ Fire” 56 “Cheers”
waitress 57 Potato holder 58 Like 24-karat
gold 60 “__ skies of blue and clouds of white ... “: “What a Wonderful World” 61 Recipe instruction 63 With 71-Across, rocker whose first name anagrams a West Coast airport code