L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Pull a pre-exam allnighter 5 High-five sound 9 Hamster homes 14 Word in a bailiff's order 15 Comics possum 16 Seashore recess 17 Mail-routing abbr. 18 How some close NFL games are won 19 Black, in Bordeaux 20 Strategy with delaying tactics 23 There's no winner in one 24 Defense org.? 25 Enticed 27 Rental industry with units for extra belongings 32 Grabbed a bite 33 Loafer or moc 34 Outlying communities 37 Brown shades 39 Push in some chips 41 Fab Four first name 42 “Jeepers!” 45 Agrees quietly 48 Capote nickname 49 Household gathering to discuss something 52 Pancake flipper 54 Not within walking distance 55 Ab neighbor 56 Hotel accommodations for couples, and a hint to both parts of 20-, 27and 49-Across 62 Dog collar dangler 64 When many start lunch 65 Slender wind 66 Eat away at 67 Lump of dirt 68 Bread with hummus 69 Sensitive skin spots 70 Cooped cluckers 71 Place to hold a snifter

DOWN

1 Stick in one's __ 2 “Lovely” musical meter maid 3 Piedmont wine center 4 __ telepathy 5 Veggie favored by Popeye 6 Like epic novels 7 Super-excited 8 Idaho product 9 HBO-owned broadcaster 10 “It's __-brainer!” 11 Beautiful people, as a group 12 Like a fog-enshrouded cemetery 13 Jouster's mount 21 Sacred Nile bird 22 Nothing more than 26 Scrolling PC key 27 Frisks, with “down” 28 Salt Lake City's state 29 Philanthropist 30 Get all blubbery 31 So, so small 35 Severely overcook 36 Fake coin 38 Couch or bench 40 Quarterback Brady 43 Erasure marks 44 Big Island port 46 Comes to the aid of 47 Scorch 50 Cape Canaveral event 51 Bunches of Brownies 52 Seekers of intel 53 Martinez with three Cy Youngs 57 Tree trunk 58 Minnesota's state bird 59 Last bio 60 Bit of dust in a sunbeam 61 Tailor's line 63 Drink suffix