L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Caught wind of

6 Helpless?

10 French friends

14 Get along

15 Rotten to the core

16 Fender flaw

17 Tap options?

19 Disney princess whose gown is adorned with snowflakes

20 “I'm so dumb!”

21 Lessen, as pressure

23 Slumber party wear,

for short

25 Poker options?

28 Time-stamp component

30 Like oyster shooters

31 90° from sur

32 Start of many

long weekends

35 Academic figure

37 Flower options?

41 German automaker once

owned by General Motors

42 Emotional baggage

45 Hawk's claw

49 __ Speedwagon

51 Upgrade a gravel

driveway, say

52 Mouth options?

56 SoCal airport

57 Big citrus 58 Lipstick mishap

60 Luminescence

61 Boxing options?

66 Forearm bone

67 Field of study

68 Huevos rancheros

condiment

69 Overly inquisitive

70 Baking amt.

71 Fix, as text

DOWN

1 Scoffer's laugh

2 Psychoanalysis subject

3 Like one who can

really draw a crowd?

4 Audition (for)

5 “Tree of Smoke”

novelist Johnson

6 Pie chart slice

7 Ab __: from the beginning

8 Short, for short

9 Of yesteryear

10 “__ Fideles”

11 Wild brawls

12 Slight

13 Rice, in some cuisine

18 “I'm so dumb!”

22 Mortal lover of Aphrodite

and Persephone

23 Common email

attachment

24 Preserves preserver 26 Imitates a penguin

27 Wowed

29 Part of a 35-Across's

address

33 Lacking a musical key

34 Terrier's bark

36 “Midsommar” filmmaker

Aster

38 Unhip type

39 Uncanny ability, for short

40 Job for an actor playing

identical twins, say

43 “Hadestown” Tony

nominee Noblezada

44 Possible reason

for an R rating

45 1986 movie partly filmed at San Diego's Air Station Miramar

46 “The Trials of __”: Rick Riordan series based on Greek myths

47 Small citrus

48 Like freeway ramps

50 “Nice burn!”

53 Greet silently

54 Actress Thurman

55 On edge

59 “Ferrari” actor Driver

62 Scepter top

63 Director Anderson

64 Gp. featured in 45-Down

65 Skosh