LA.TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 __ signs 6 Feminine pronoun

9 World Cup chant

12 With money at stake

14 Guinness of “Doctor Zhivago”

15 Task on a suburban summer to-do list

16 Woke

17 *Not so great

19 Singer DiFranco

20 Put away

22 Road trip game

23 *Roe delicacy

26 Blog entry

27 Surround

31 Drag show accessories

34 Q's neighbor

36 Fixes a crossword, say

37 Oblique neighbors

38 *Laboratory vessel

41 “__ but a scratch”

42 Part of a bath set gift basket

44 Sea-__ airport

45 Rat's home

46 “I'm going before you!”

49 Prepare, as potatoes

51 *Currency in San Ignacio

56 London's __ Park

59 “Gimme a minute”

60 Abbreviation with a suggested price

61 Tight embraces, and what the answers to the starred clues literally have?

63 Beatles hairstyle

65 Formula 1 need

66 Rhyme Syndicate founder

67 “Hey, bro”

68 Coffee receptacle

69 Advanced deg.

70 Uses a surgical beam

DOWN

1 Lesson that may involve a thesaurus, for short

2 Silly

3 Language in Sri Lanka

4 Pres. in a stovepipe hat

5 “We're leaving now!”

6 Oreo cookie packaging

7 Bottled up, as emotions

8 Earth Day prefix

9 Work-from-home types

10 Irish Spring, e.g.

11 Slightly off

13 Cookbook phrase

14 Pokémon species that evolves into Kadabra and Alakazam

18 Full of energy 21 Eight-related

24 Company with brown trucks

25 State boldly

28 Diet branding word

29 “Try a Little Tenderness” singer Redding

30 Hushed summons

31 Lip Smacker product

32 Clarinet kin

33 Starting from

35 Club alternative

38 Unadorned

39 Lily of “Downton Abbey”

40 Starfleet school

43 Bran benefit

45 Org. for Oilers

47 Abandon good posture

48 Lightly shaded

50 “Awesome!”

52 Citrus bits

53 Sacred flower

54 Quarters

55 Lures (in)

56 Morehouse, for one: Abbr.

57 12 months

58 “Fiddlesticks”

62 In

64 “Get a room!” elicitor, for short