L.A. Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Boarding area

5 Sugar substitute

11 Liberal group?

15 Strait-laced

16 How stir-fry is often

served

17 Vichyssoise need 18 *Operating room

assistants

20 Hathaway of

“Ocean’s 8”

21 “_ _ as directed”

22 “Dig in!”

23 _ _ Pueblo, New

Mexico

25 Aardvark snack

26 Dog in RCA Victor

ads

28 *Employ flowery

language

30 Native peoples of

the Arctic

31 React to yeast

32 Lightning burst

33 Number in a 10-day

forecast, for short 34 Connecticut WNBA

team

35 “Argo” org.

36 *Indulgent request made by Mae West in “I’m No Angel” 41 Utter

42 Route

43 Hissy fit

46 Come to pass

49 For you and me 51 Brief tussle

52 *Cast celebration 54 Early ‘90s pres.,

familiarly

55 Hasty escape

56 Education acronym 57 Plot device?

58 Grammy category

since 1989

59 Black-_ _ Susan

61 *Retail event with

deep discounts

64 “To Venus and

Back” singer Amos 65 Categorize

66 Walk heavily

67 Hidden obstacle 68 Jackson Hole

backdrop

69 Sax type

DOWN

1 Garmin device

2 Inverse trig function 3 Cyclist’s accessory 4 Ostrich kin

5 Underwater detector 6 Bolt holder

7 Throw wide of the

cutoff man, say

8 Panoramic views

9 Mountaineering tool 10 Greek fabulist

11 Taking after

12 First name of Italian sopranos Tebaldi and Scotto

13 Wimbledon sport 14 Quick drawing

19 Vegetable that may stain a cutting board

24 Bulgaria’s capital 27 Joins the

conversation

28 Viognier or Vouvray 29 Ticks by

31 Mojito liquor

34 Shifty

35 Shed tears

37 O.K. Corral brothers 38 Askew

39 Neon or freon

40 Captivate

44 “This is all more

than I can handle” 45 Ruin, as plans

46 Nocturnal nestlings 47 Medium for most

refrigerator art

48 Shape outlined in

Instagram’s logo 49 Vague threat

50 Absolute

51 Haggis ingredient 53 Baseball stat

54 Matches

57 Rhinoceros feature 60 Use a spade

62 Court

63 Place to enjoy the kinds of pampering found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues