LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Mediterranean isle for which a style of pants is named
6 Periodic table’s Pb
10 Female lobsters
14 Butcher’s garment
15 Killer whale
16 Lobster catcher
17 Takes hold
18 *Bureaucratic obstacle to environmental projects
20 Portuguese greeting
21 “Call Me by Your Name” name
23 Declined, with “out”
24 *Extreme winterweather event
28 Before, in verse
29 Dolly Parton hit
33 Nonpoetic writing
36 Phobia
38 Daffy or Bugs
40 *Nickname for a Mozart work in C major
43 Pit
44 Tons 45 Lather, __, repeat
46 Aspirations 48 PC alternative
49 *Writer of the 2023 legal thriller “The Exchange”
55 Tyler of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”
59 Cereal grain
60 Prefix with tourism
61 Protection of intellectual property, and what the answer to each starred clue literally has
64 Boise’s state 66 Couple of magazines?
67 Mayberry boy
68 When the sun rises in the west
69 Dishwashing brand used to clean animals after oil spills
70 D.C. MLB team
71 Honking birds
DOWN
1 Chocolate substitute
2 Speed skater Ohno
3 Many a charity tournament
4 Go bad
5 Behind closed doors
6 Puzzle solver’s skill
7 Former “CNN Newsroom” anchor Barnett
8 Blackjack card
9 Actor Daniel __ Kim
10 URL intro
11 Q.E.D. part
12 Travel pillow spot
13 Raced
19 Fielding of “The Great British Bake Off”
22 Caustic chemical
25 Next to
26 “Love Train” group, with “The”
27 Convention
30 Law school course
31 Midday
32 Geological spans
33 Comfy attire that’s rarely worn out?
34 Regretted
35 Abbr. on old phones
36 Future soph
37 Contractor’s fig.
39 “Science Guy” Bill
41 Red “Sesame Street” resident
42 Lauding
47 Somewhat open
48 “Rocky III” actor with a mohawk
50 Like three Justin Verlander games
51 Stadium entries
52 Throw
53 __ and pains
54 Boxing legend Archie
55 Caustic chemical
56 Little bit 57 Gush 58 Church song
62 Charged particle
63 Transcript fig.
65 Dead end?