LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Bobbleheads, e.g. 6 Jury decision 11 Pair of Grammys? 14 “It’s __ time!” 15 Old photo tint 16 Dwarf who mixes up his words 17 Angry reaction 19 “This American Life” host Glass 20 Meeting goal often not achieved 21 Nuclear energy

device

23 Lip

26 Firefighter’s tool 27 Indian noble 31 Surly

35 Soft palate

projection

37 Not what one

would expect 38 It went down in

history 40 Connects with 44 Mexican bread 46 Single-master 47 Stable cleaner 51 Tolkien tree

creatures

52 Palm tree

superfood 53 Ancient home 55 Predator with a

heart-shaped face 59 Card game with

trumps 64 Hurricane season

mo. 65 “The Shawshank Redemption” event, and what’s hidden in four puzzle rows 68 Cravat or ascot 69 Like Caspar

Milquetoast 70 Give a false idea

of

71 Low

72 Deposit in the attic, say 73 Cheerleaders’ assortment

DOWN

1 “James and the Giant Peach” author

2 Wind heard in Dion’s “Abraham, Martin and John” 3 Desolate

4 Organ in a chest 5 Decides to leave

alone

6 Biblical mount 7 Harmless cyst 8 Imitator

9 Slope

10 It may be crunched 11 Spell-checker, say 12 Lacking in joy 13 Rustled (up) 18 Bangkok native 22 Private laugh 24 Golfing mishaps 25 Camera type, briefly 27 Rural road feature 28 Prefix with fauna 29 Stick (out)

30 2019 Mena Massoud title role 32 Free of commissions, as a mutual fund 33 Young Darth 34 Cookie containers 36 Indigo plant 39 Having four

sharps 41 Absalom, to David 42 “PAW Patrol” fan 43 Special ___ 45 Caviar

47 Clogs

48 Thorny shrub 49 Made a sudden

move

50 Rounded hammer

part

54 Lumpy, as a knit

fabric

56 Comes down on one side of something 57 Court order 58 Ride to the prom 60 Algonquin language 61 Severe criticism 62 Fence crosspiece 63 Manages to get, with “out” 66 Military address 67 “To Autumn,” for

one