L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Amendment dealing with states' rights

6 Hobby shop buy 9 Longtime Wall Street name

14 Spanish month

15 Draft pick

16 Outfielder Mike who finished first (twice) or second (three times) in 2012-2016

A.L. MVP voting

17 Alien reptile in “Avatar”? 19 Snake, e.g.

20 Racks up

21 Corpulent

23 Connecting point

24 “Bad Moon Rising” band, initially

26 First of a series

29 Small amount

31 Worked the soil

33 Shopper stopper? 34 TV schedule abbr. 36 Buttonhole, say 38 Affirmative action

39 Bit of horseplay

42 Pest that's gotten into the cheese? 44 Castilian kin

45 GP gp.

46 Mex. miss 47 Jr. and sr.

49 Brass component

51 Bit of swearing

53 Slate et al., for short 57 Merchant ship flotilla 59 Ring bearer

61 Baker

62 Sprite flavor

64 Stage bit

66 North African site of a 1943 conference 68 Long-eared mascot of an L.A. newspaper?

70 Stun

71 “We've exceeded seating capacity” sign

72 Gauge

73 Chief Justice after Marshall

74 It's big in London

75 Salad green

DOWN

1 Letter?

2 Captivate

3 Area 51 locale

4 Cut into three equal parts 5 Keeps to oneself

6 Lawn gnomes, e.g. 7 Snapchat had one in Mar. 2017

8 Poi source 9 Antibiotic target

10 Crops up

11 Tiny insect that casts spells?

12 Peach, e.g.

13 Orch. section

18 Old nuclear agcy.

22 __ harm

25 Promising

27 Wells race

28 Make over

30 Drops off

32 Brownie, in folklore

35 Dry gulch

37 Rubber in a boot?

39 __ Strip

40 “The Kite Runner” boy

41 One of a group of feline predators?

43 “Give __ rest!”

48 Overwhelm

50 Strong-arm

52 Mark of “NCIS”

54 Do the Wright thing? 55 Types

56 Nasty smiles

58 Idaho's __ Mountains 60 Fluke-to-be

63 Black-box analyzers: Abbr. 65 Camp Pendleton letters 66 K.C. hours

67 “Caught you!”

69 Rage