L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Service calls

6 Emotionally bother

11 Sonic the Hedgehog maker

15 Miller's salesman

16 Audibly awed

17 Dirt handful

18 Commonly bristly covering 21 “Settle down!”

22 Watch name

23 Black shade

26 Positive aspects

27 Make the cut?

29 Christmas celebration 32 Sock part

33 Innate abilities

34 Ginsburg colleague

36 With 37-Across, an apt reminder

37 See 36-Across

39 Pile

43 Off the plate

46 Mooch

48 SHO sister channel 51 Last-minute deadline 54 Whaling weapon

56 Narrow inlets

57 Friend of Frodo

58 Red flag

59 World Heritage Site org. 61 “Things are different now” ... and an apt hint to three other answers 67 Long-billed wader 68 Like Stout's Wolfe 69 Former National Endowment for the Humanities chair Cheney 70 Great balls of fire 71 Herd butters 72 Radiate

DOWN

1 1980s TV ET

2 Call from Mrs. O'Leary's barn

3 Dingo prey

4 Cop making a traffic stop? 5 Nosy sort

6 Mustang's rate of speed, at times

7 Selfishness

8 Delicacy

9 Sound of disapproval 10 Special __

11 Ponzi schemes, e.g. 12 Firstborn

13 Like lovestruck eyes 14 Pop-up source

19 Reasons to take painful steps?

20 Verb in the song “Sloop John B”

23 Mutt's companion

24 “First Lady of Song” 25 Colorful duck 27 Polio vaccine pioneer 28 TV forensic series

30 Nasty

31 Cheese go-with

35 “Trouble ahead!”

37 “It's __ fun”

38 Farm crawler

40 Genesis grandson

41 Water en un lago

42 Salon offering

44 Scintillas

45 Short still?

46 Squirrel away

47 Range on which 7 denotes neutrality

48 Strictly speaking

49 “Two and a Half Men” beach setting

50 Pack without an inch to spare

52 First name of a literary “Papa”

53 Family reunion attendees

55 Persist, with “on” 59 Pigmented eye area

60 Black shade

62 “Sooey!” responder

63 Blood classification letters 64 Beast that rhymes with zoo

65 Word with living or dead 66 When doubled, a Ramone