L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Place for a guard
5 American sports org.
9 Walk or wind preceder
14 Suffix for the wealthy
15 Actor who's played a doctor and senator on TV
16 What captions can capture
17 *Pay back
19 Pay homage, in a way
20 Basil sauce
21 Teed off
23 __ Fridays
24 Hideout
26 Like some sale quantities
28 *Step back
32 She played Mia in “Pulp Fiction”
33 “I did it!”
34 Prefix with thermal
35 “Puss in Boots” baddie
37 Brown in a Croce title
39 Houston suburb named for initials from the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad
43 2018 Super Bowl designation
45 Compared with
47 Tilling tool
48 *Snap back 53 Buttercup family member 54 Beat at the buzzer 55 Benching units: Abbr.
56 Big name in little trucks 58 Many a UAE resident 62 Chain with a dog-and-cat logo
64 One way to drive ... and what the last word of each starred clue really means
66 Really dug
67 Command to Rover
68 Mindless repetition 69 Gumbo server
70 Govt. branch
71 PR firm's forte
DOWN
1 '90s-'00s NFL Pro Bowler Warren
2 Take on
3 Accts. funded annually, perhaps
4 Prickly plant
5 Chi.-based flier
6 Downhill excursion
7 Bleach feature
8 Rapeseed oil
9 Baking convenience
10 Winning streak
11 2003 self-titled folk album 12 Superman co-creator
Jerry
13 Cones and cubes 18 Doomed, slangily
22 Resort near Cape Cod, with “the”
25 Napoli native
27 “It's just a scratch”
28 Outkast, for one
29 Texter's “Shocking!”
30 Damage
31 Magna __
36 I, O or U
38 “My goodness!”
40 Rarely served fish?
41 Low digit
42 Archery wood 44 Uranium-238, e.g.
46 Beersheba's locale
48 Female bud
49 Still being tested, as software
50 __ interest
51 “Mind your manners”
52 Irritations
57 Polk's middle name
59 Support, with “up” 60 Product of white Muscat grapes
61 New driver, usually
63 __-de-sac
65 Continental trade gp.