L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Small earring

5 Mercedes line

11 Magazine with a satirical “fold-in” back cover

14 Bear in two constellations

15 Bits of dust

16 Curling surface

17 “Two Tahitian Women” painter

19 Testing site

20 Minute

21 SFO incoming flight 22 Narrow cut

23 1965 Beau Brummels hit with the line “It seemed so funny to me” 27 Neverland pirate

28 Snap, crackle and pop 32 CPR expert

35 Media org. that tweets the Declaration of Independence on July 4 37 Partner of each 38 Southern lights

43 H.G. Wells genre

44 Moo __ gai pan

45 Kin of -kin

46 Yet

48 Zodiac transition point 51 Reuben ingredient 55 Adhesive strip

58 Bygone telecom co. 59 Waited in line, say 62 “Ben-__” 63 13th/14th-century Mongol Empire region

... and an elemental hint to what's found twice in each answer to a starred clue

66 The Nixon years, e.g. 67 Capital west of Krakow 68 Tiny amt. of time

69 “Great news!”

70 Autumn blooms

71 Fair

DOWN

1 Enjoys an evening meal 2 Magic Kingdom people mover 3 Customary

4 “Who Shot J.R.?” show 5 That, in Tijuana

6 Apple core? 7 Sanctioned

8 Honda luxury brand 9 Vail trail

10 Common ID

11 Pepper grinder

12 Berry from South America

13 It's outstanding

18 In a funk

22 Hindu deity known as the Destroyer 24 Rowlands who won an Emmy for playing Betty Ford

25 Air filter acronym

26 Suffix with movie or church

29 What some bears do 30 Keystone State port

31 Part of CNS: Abbr.

32 Dawn direction

33 Greatly

34 Donald Duck's nephews, e.g.

36 Throw __

39 Beneficial

40 Latvian birthplace of Baryshnikov

41 Bit of footwear

42 __ de force

47 Indulges

49 Bachelorette party accessory

50 Deceptions 52 Razzle-dazzle

53 Blue __ Mountains

54 Trunk

55 “So __ say”

56 Ambience

57 Use rosary beads, say 60 Poetic tributes 61 Geometric art style 63 Transcript fig.

64 Prefix with Asian

65 Wii forerunner, briefly