L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Place for a guard 5 American sports org. 9 Walk or wind preceder 14 Suffix for the wealthy 15 Actor who's played a doctor and senator on TV 16 What captions can capture

17 *Pay back

19 Pay homage, in a way 20 Basil sauce

21 Teed off

23 __ Fridays

24 Hideout

26 Like some sale quantities 28 *Step back

32 She played Mia in “Pulp Fiction”

33 “I did it!”

34 Prefix with thermal

35 “Puss in Boots” baddie

37 Brown in a Croce title 39 Houston suburb named for initials from the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad

43 2018 Super Bowl designation

45 Compared with

47 Tilling tool

48 *Snap back 53 Buttercup family member 54 Beat at the buzzer 55 Benching units: Abbr.

56 Big name in little trucks 58 Many a UAE resident 62 Chain with a dog-and-cat logo

64 One way to drive ... and what the last word of each starred clue really means

66 Really dug

67 Command to Rover 68 Mindless repetition 69 Gumbo server

70 Govt. branch

71 PR firm's forte

DOWN

1 '90s-'00s NFL Pro Bowler Warren

2 Take on

3 Accts. funded annually, perhaps

4 Prickly plant

5 Chi.-based flier

6 Downhill excursion

7 Bleach feature

8 Rapeseed oil

9 Baking convenience 10 Winning streak

11 2003 self-titled folk album 12 Superman co-creator

Jerry

13 Cones and cubes 18 Doomed, slangily

22 Resort near Cape Cod, with “the”

25 Napoli native

27 “It's just a scratch” 28 Outkast, for one

29 Texter's “Shocking!” 30 Damage

31 Magna __

36 I, O or U

38 “My goodness!”

40 Rarely served fish?

41 Low digit

42 Archery wood 44 Uranium-238, e.g. 46 Beersheba's locale 48 Female bud

49 Still being tested, as software

50 __ interest

51 “Mind your manners” 52 Irritations

57 Polk's middle name 59 Support, with “up” 60 Product of white Muscat grapes

61 New driver, usually 63 __-de-sac

65 Continental trade gp.