L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tools with teeth

6 Geocaching device

9 Did a face-plant

14 “This really matters to me”

16 First name in country

17 Keep on keeping on

18 Like a misty pond after dark

19 Genre that includes dubstep

20 Dudes

21 Vegetable in a yellow pod

23 “So true!”

25 Color of rambutan skin

26 Contributes

27 Deli jarful

29 “The Chimpanzees I Love” author Jane

32 Showbiz “grand slam”

33 “Xanadu” band

34 Classic Chevy

38 Gas in some lasers

40 List-ending abbr.

42 Shelter made of compressed snow

43 Pacific Palisades location

45 Take legal action

47 Lie adjacent to

48 Shelter dogs

50 Fail to see

51 Branch of Islam

54 Short flight

55 Subsequently

57 Keep under wraps

59 Kung __ tofu

60 “Lookee here!”

63 Reversed

64 Tipping point

67 For the time __

68 Bankrupt company's transaction

69 Opposites attract, e.g.

70 Tedious routine

71 Squelched

DOWN

1 Like a yellow papaya

2 Scored on a serve

3 Spiritual path of action

4 Hectic hosp. areas

5 Note with a low grade, perhaps

6 Narrow valley

7 “__ favor”

8 Slow-boiled

9 “Don't live life without it” card co.

10 Event for minor leaguers?

11 Blundered

12 Poem that inspired Pat Barker's “The Women of Troy”

13 Freezing temps

15 Get payback for

22 Very little

24 Sport with pit stops, in Britain

25 Digs out, or what can be found in four long Down answers?

27 Dim sum, e.g.

28 City southeast of New Delhi

30 Fútbol cheer

31 Necklace shipped with ice packs

35 Lab animal with white fur

36 Markers

37 Becomes inedible

39 Maiden name indicator

41 Billiards stick

44 “The Prisoner's Wife” author Bandele

46 Sprawling property

49 Shirt feature

51 Reef explorer's gear

52 Made sharper

53 28-Down's country

56 Podcast moderators

58 Slight lead

59 Soft “Look over here!”

61 Divine circle

62 Clive of “Monsieur Spade”

65 Sun Devils sch.

66 Airport org. that approves some locks