LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Potentially insensitive, briefly 5 Police 9 ABBA’s “__ Mia!” 14 Vidal’s Breckinridge 15 Pequod captain 16 Native Nebraskans 17 Plenty 18 Islamic branch 19 Transports by truck 20 Winding, hilly thoroughfares 23 Gandhi’s land 24 Like oysters on the half shell 25 French water 28 Not kid around 33 IV amounts 36 List-shortening abbr. 37 Italics feature 38 Walter White shaved his off 40 In contention (for) 43 On the house 44 Aimée of “La Dolce Vita” 46 Dmitri’s dissent 48 In low spirits 49 Traitorous spies 53 Driver’s license info 54 Wayside stop 55 One-up 59 Halloween discards, and what the three sets of circles represent? 64 “Dallas” surname 66 Solid precipitation 67 Backside in a fall? 68 Long-shot rags-toriches enabler 69 Ices, mob-style 70 Girl in a Salinger story 71 Enter on a laptop 72 Italian eight 73 Sweetheart

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1 Savory taste first identified in Tokyo 2 Carpet synthetic 3 __ as a peacock 4 Tabby stimulant 5 José’s house 6 “Fancy meeting you here!” 7 “No __, no gain” 8 Mall pizza chain 9 Goth hairstyles 10 Opposite of 17Across 11 Headpiece for kids in Mickey’s TV club 12 Filmmaker Brooks 13 Biblical beast of burden 21 Yarn 22 Boating blade 26 Sleep concern 27 “Cómo está __?” 29 Dune buggy, briefly 30 “We did it!” 31 Throw wildly 32 North Pole toymaker 33 “Hanging” problems in the 2000 election 34 Algonquin transport 35 Iowa port on the Lewis and Clark Trail 39 Coax (out), as a genie 41 “Science Guy” Bill 42 Title for DDE 45 Fictional language spoken by Sheldon and Leonard on “The Big Bang Theory” 47 Sporty car roof 50 Wind up 51 Slangy “Movin’ right along ... “52 Had a late meal 56 Not long-winded 57 Daytime soap, e.g. 58 Big name in blenders 60 Opposed to 61 Float like a feather in the breeze 62 Breakup 63 “Let me add ... ” 64 Yellowstone grazers 65 Misery