L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Excites, with “up” 5 Programs opened with a fingertip

9 Furtive attention-getters 14 When doubled, a fish 15 Computer folder item 16 Musical eightsome

17 *Air Force topper 19 Go halfsies

20 Creator of the Hundred Acre Wood

21 Onetime comm. giant 23 Concerning 24 *Subconscious revelation 28 Unethical

31 __ brûlée: custard dessert

32 Wild hog

33 Excite, with “up”

35 Up to now

38 Pipe shape

39 *Solution for an itchy Spot?

42 __-Magnon

43 Honking birds

45 Cookie container

46 Woman in a family tree 47 Armada

50 Eurasian grasslands 52 *Escapes

55 Beat really fast

56 “Gimme a __”

57 Cacophony 61 Not up to the task 63 Opposites, and what the answers to starred clues literally contain

66 Ford replaced him as VP 67 Folded Tex-Mex treat 68 Daily paper material 69 Back in style 70 Underworld river

71 Stun with a police gun

DOWN

1 Radio switch 2 Landlocked African country

3 Three-time Masters champ Mickelson 4 Formally accept, as a delivery

5 Toward the stern 6 Camera shot

7 Kilt pattern

8 __ tank

9 Neg. opposite

10 Deep divides

11 Hockey trophy 12 Purple-haired twin on “The Simpsons”

13 Brew

18 German gent

22 Shingle sealant 25 Royal wedding guest, perhaps

26 Peter Fonda's beekeeper

27 Tide type

28 “__ your pardon”

29 Spy story staple

30 Like evildoers

34 Laundry tub

36 Shore bird

37 Youngsters

39 Charges for members 40 Part of DJ

41 Really enjoying, as a hobby

44 Unexpected hit

46 Name officially, as to a position

48 Sci-fi invaders 49 Robberies

51 Seemingly forever 52 Monastery figure 53 Jessica of “American Horror Story”

54 Panache

58 Thought

59 Hems, but doesn't haw 60 To be, to Brutus

62 Word before time or piece

64 Like an “if looks could kill” look

65 Quaint curse