LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Droops
5 Future yearling
9 Lengthy test answer
14 Furrow maker
15 Off course
16 __ lazuli
17 To whom Rick says, “The Germans wore gray. You wore blue”
18 Commits an email faux pas
20 Wannabe
22 Inscribe
23 Lamb nurser
24 Unaccounted for, for short 26 Prop for Gandalf
29 Reader’s Digest co-founder
Wallace
31 Stink
33 Battery size
35 Space bar neighbor, on a PC
37 Crowdsourced source,
briefly
38 Sass
39 Tempter of Odysseus
40 Unit of resistance
41 Matches a bet
43 Post-op area
44 Challenge
46 Undoing
47 Didn’t need to be let out
48 “Mamma Mia!” pop group
49 Rider’s strap
50 Actress Birch
52 Greenish blue
54 Gimlet liquor
57 Classic PC game
59 Words of apology
61 Salisbury Plain megaliths
65 Michigan, for one
66 Justice Sotomayor
67 Adderall target, briefly
68 Plan from a nutritionist
69 Lack of musical talent
70 “Roar” singer Perry
71 Stops
DOWN
1 Rub component
2 Greenlight
3 Undeniably accurate statement
4 Convince
5 Like a dreamy look
6 Have because of
7 Dadaism pioneer Jean
8 Crocodile in Bernard Waber children’s books
9 Fish that shock prey
10 Beyonce’s “I Am... ___ Fierce”
11 Place for some “me time”
12 Feel off
13 DKNY rival
19 Generous response to 59-Across
21 January 1 to December 31
25 Like sous vide cooking
27 Downpour, or when parsed another way, what can be found in this puzzle’s sets of circles
28 Stops working
30 Barinholtz of “The Mindy Project”
32 Not so bright
34 Semicircular church area
35 “Dream on”
36 Permitted by law
40 Poetic sphere
42 French pal
45 Embarrass
46 Hybrid genre
51 Labor __ vincit: Oklahoma motto
53 Small cube?
55 Got to
56 Russian refusals
58 Hardwood used for pricey salad bowls
60 Shoppe adjective
61 Oft-redacted ID
62 In addition
63 Number of players needed
to play solitaire 64 Secret-protecting doc