L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Publisher Alfred

6 Spur to action

10 Mus. key with three sharps 14 Lost cause

15 Overconfident racer of fable

16 Hawaiian island

17 Hawaii or Alaska

18 Oil gp. that includes 57-Down

19 Take a load off

20 Horse sense

23 Pool tool

24 Try to win

25 Colonel Sanders facial feature

28 Main attraction

32 Lab maze navigator

33 Letter flourish

34 “... good witch, __ bad witch?”

35 Angry or achy

36 Test proctor's reminder 40 Soap units

43 Gold in Granada 44 Semiaquatic salamanders 48 The “A” in “IPA” 49 Hard-boiled genre

52 Like Easter eggs before the hunt

54 Duct opening? 55 Debate side

56 Its measurements include liters and grams

60 Squared up 62 Tax-sheltered plans: Abbr.

63 More than suggest 65 Partial view? 66 Scandinavian language 67 Circular

68 Decrease

69 Organic compound 70 Sch. district VIPs

DOWN

1 56-Across wts.

2 On the fence

3 Winning like crazy 4 Korda of '80s-'90s tennis

5 Library amenity 6 Camera buff, for short 7 Shoots the breeze 8 Utah city near Provo 9 10-point star polygon 10 Main blood vessel 11 Orchestra leader 12 Contented sighs

13 Stick (out)

21 Years and years

22 Word after fuel or fly 23 LP successors

26 Cup handle

27 Season after printemps 29 Erma Bombeck's

“At __ End”

30 Décor choice

31 MLB's D-backs

35 Editorial “let it stand” 37 Event often visible in the evening sky

38 “__ tu”: Verdi aria 39 Cutting teeth

40 Derisive interjection 41 “Rope-a-dope” boxer 42 Paleo diet protein source

45 Took care of, as a spill

46 Annoy persistently 47 __-cone: summer treat 49 Safety feature at a trapeze school 50 La Brea discovery 51 Wall-climbing plant 53 Slow on the uptake 57 Pakistan neighbor 58 “Duck Dynasty” attire, for short

59 Pants, briefly

60 Flow back, as a tide 61 By way of

64 Ave. and st.