LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD
1 Kid around 5 Abacus unit 9 Promote heavily 13 Fever with chills 14 “I do” site
16 “A Death in the Family” Pulitzer winner
17 Word with head or meal
18 Supply chain intermediary 20 Public transit commuter’s nightmare
22 Blow up
24 “¿Cómo __?” 25 Some systems pros: Abbr.
26 Mal de __ 27 Beaujolais, e.g. 30 Bird on a court 32 Access point indicator on many streets
37 Pretentious with a paintbrush, say 38 Hindu teacher 39 “Mamma Mia!” group
43 Have fun on a diamond 46 Shopping __ 49 High-__ monitor 50 Meadowland
51 Arg. neighbor
52 Withdraw by degrees
56 Make sense 58 Acting affectedly ... and, based on what can go with the three parts of 20-, 32and 43-Across, this puzzle’s title
62 Kind of fortitude
63 Copied 66 __-do-well 67 Arduous jobs
68 “La maja desnuda” artist 69 Old Norse poetic work
70 Canadian gas 71 Plant support
DOWN
1 Poke
2 Alter __
3 Like one who got careless at the beach
4 Get set to drive 5 Scold, with “out” 6 K-12, for short 7 Make amends 8 Lowlands 9 Late-night TV pioneer
10 Harder to watch 11 Catcher of the Golden Snitch, in Quidditch 12 Rejection of religious dogma 15 Remainder
19 Like an old joke 21 Houston MLBer 22 Stone or Watson 23 Raise
28 “Frozen” snow queen
29 Like morning grass
31 Many an Omani 33 Pre-release buzz 34 Dry 27-Across, briefly 35 Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan __
36 Gripping device 40 Hairless area
41 Veal cordon __ 42 Swim __: do one full pool circuit 44 Lamb Chop creator Shari
45 Actor Morales 46 Lying face-up 47 Spruced up, as a spruce
48 Groovy? 53 Middle-earth tree creatures
54 Deft
55 They’re forbidden 57 They’re boring 59 Trillion: Pref. 60 Scolds to death 61 Too
64 Set one’s sights on 65 Beaver’s project