LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Like some hygiene 5 Casual greeting 9 House level accessed with pull-down stairs 14 Folk singer Seeger 15 Assist with a heist 16 Harry Potter nemesis __ Malfoy 17 “Around the Horn” channel

18 __ line: 18thcentury disputeresolving state border 20 “Awesome!” 22 NFL analyst Tony 23 German “a” 24 Kite-flying need 26 Puts on the line,

as money

28 Fluffy, citrusy pie 33 Lousy grade 36 USN noncom 37 Devon delivery

vehicle

38 “My mom and dad will kill me!” 41 ’90s prime-time soap “__ Place” 43 Less

44 License plate 45 Acquired

46 Family car largely replaced by the minivan and SUV 51 Brief movie role 52 Sure winner

56 Too

59 Voices below soprani

61 __ Carlo 62 Ordinary-sounding state bird of Minnesota

65 Pols from blue

states, usually 66 Pecans and pistachios 67 Overnight lodgings

68 Tiny biting insect 69 Latin “that is” 70 Fair-hiring agcy. 71 Slow Churned ice

cream brand

DOWN

1 Bids first

2 Go back to zero 3 For the stock issue price 4 Soup legume 5 Radio hobbyist 6 Letter-shaped beam

7 “Decide now!” 8 Word with power or energy

9 Toss in 10 Attempts to get 11 Roll to a terminal 12 Clickable image 13 Ice cream holder 19 On-the-run snack 21 Number that’s a square of itself 25 Acadia and Yukon 27 Pass idly, as time 29 Decide (to) 30 Kermit, for one 31 Estimate words 32 Dimitri’s denial 33 Switches to low

beams

34 Send forth 35 Sicilian volcano 39 Results 40 Himalayan

continent 41 Nanny’s bleat 42 They’re laid in 55

Down 44 Black-and-white,

say

47 Mideast sultanate 48 Journalist Bly 49 Resistance unit 50 Annoying person 53 Without a break ... or what each word in 18-, 28-, 46- and 62-Across has 54 “__comeasno

surprise ... ” 55 42-Down holders 56 Drama opening 57 Title for an earl 58 Hook’s cohort 60 Prefix with sphere 63 East, in Essen 64 White House

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