LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Bank security

device, briefly

5 Aim high

10 Harvest

14 “Fancy meeting

you here!”

15 Vital vessel

16 Semi bar

17 Gardener’s buy

18 Shoulder warmer 19 Table parts

20 Region on the

South China Sea 22 Members with

unflinching loyalty 24 Landlord’s sign

26 __ Ellen, J.R.’s wife

on “Dallas”

27 Maximum

28 HHS agency

29 Exchange need 32 12-Down output 33 “No problem!”

35 ER skill practiced

on a doll

36 Pet-adoption ads,

briefly

38 Part of MB

39 Couldn’t refuse 41 Text recipient

44 Tattoo parlor

supplies

46 Pussy-cat’s

partner, in verse 47 One with many

limbs

48 Facebook barrage,

at times

50 Unconscious

53 “Srsly?!” 54 Media-monitoring

org.

55 “Up First” network 56 Flu fighter

58 Emotionally break

down

62 “__ while they’re

hot!”

64 Bicolor cookie

65 Dinnertime draws 67 Italian tower city 68 End of the line

69 Burning again

70 Column in math 71 Risk it

72 Walk heavily

73 Pursue

DOWN

1 Micro- ending 2 Calorie counter’s break

3 “It’s safe to come out”

4 Author Gore 5 Fun time, in slang 6 Fireworks cries 7 Frank’s cousin 8 Formal confession 9 Predictors of most 20th-century U.S. presidential elections 10 Nadal’s nickname 11 Workout suggested by the circled letters and their orientation 12 Pub dispenser

13 Pampering spot

for cats and dogs 21 Above, in poems 23 Dampens

25 User’s rescuer

28 Winter mo.

30 Bookkeeping pro 31 Triage MD

34 Craving

37 Pretense that’s

put on

40 28-Down number 42 “I wanna look!”

43 Thanksgiving

dinner choice

45 Hawaii’s __ Coast 48 Pay for on one’s

own

49 Georgetown Univ.

locale

51 Wall Street

regular

52 Ph.D., e.g.

57 Targets for towers 59 Mythology

60 Caramel-centered

treat

61 Request at the

barbershop

63 Render indistinct,

as an odor

66 Longtime NASCAR

sponsor