LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Mixes in

5 Pricing word 9 Tidied, as a lawn 14 “An Officer and a Gentleman” star

15 Run the show 16 Many a flower

girl

17 Lotion

component 18 Wyoming

national park 20 Charmin maker,

familiarly

22 Put forward 23 Needle hole 24 Nocturnal birds

of prey 26 Chicken tikka __ 30 “Everything

must go” event 32 De-pleat?

34 Hor. map line 35 Guitar lesson

basics

37 Military title for

POTUS

38 JFK alternative 39 “Tabula rasa”

philosopher John 40 Video chat

annoyance

41 Live coal 43 Hobbit enemy 44 __ polish

46 “The View” Emmy winner Shepherd 47 Purpose 48 Gurgling sound 49 Post-WWII

alliance 50 “Wiggle” singer

Jason

52 Sushi prep verb 54 Brewpub barrel 57 Meditate on 59 Gibbons of talk

TV

61 “No need to

mince words” 65 __ pricing 66 Think alike 67 “West Side

Story” pair 68 Old character 69 The Brownings,

e.g.

70 Garden

annoyance 71 Newspaper

commentary

DOWN

1 Obviously

impressed 2 Supply chain

inconvenience 3 Sport with teams

of quadcopters 4 Tourney rank 5 Rowing machine,

informally 6 Hearing-related 7 Period of the Peloponnesian Wars

8 Layers on a farm 9 Foyer

10 Eating patterns 11 Word before “Shorty,” “Smart,” “Hard,” and “Out,” in film titles 12 Environmental

prefix

13 Bear’s lair

19 Evil spirit 21 Hollywood Foreign Press Association awards 25 Director Craven 27 Emotionally crushed, and an apt description of the circled elements in this puzzle?

28 Beer choice 29 Centipede maker 31 Ararat lander 33 Semi 35 Billowy mass 36 Belmont Stakes

racer 40 Shang-Chi

player Simu 42 Converged 45 Without help 46 Punkie

Johnson’s NBC show

51 Part of a

Cinderella story 53 Give a speech 55 Online periodical 56 __ community 58 Common result in championship chess

60 Currency symbolized by E like symbol 61 Track circuit 62 Self-image 63 Italian three 64 Psychedelic

letters