L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “Big Board” that lists GM and GE

5 Strauss of jeans

9 Scam using spam, say 14 Fireworks cries

15 Eye layer that includes the iris

16 Roman robes

17 How something precarious may hang 19 Love, to Casanova

20 Soft toss

21 “Out with it!”

23 List-ending abbr. 24 Diplomatic office

26 “No more for me, thanks” 28 Simon __

29 How a good comedian leaves the audience? 33 Farm layer

35 Lamp-to-plug line

36 Little mischief-maker 37 Marisa of “My Cousin Vinny”

40 Asian New Year

41 Very unpleasant

43 “It's __-win situation” 44 Clinton's veep

46 Fifth scale note

47 Difficult time

50 Queries 54 Schlepped

55 Eats a little

57 “Verrrry funny” 59 Stem (from) 61 Opposite of “yep” 62 Overplay the part 64 Care

66 Career employee 67 New __: modern spiritualist

68 Rebuke from Caesar 69 Put off

70 Gridiron throw 71 Stinging insect

DOWN

1 Aristocrats 2 Grammy-winning cellist 3 “Not too __!”: “Good work!”

4 “To the max” suffix

5 Slyly attracts 6 “Brideshead Revisited” novelist Waugh

7 Wiener schnitzel meat 8 Words of confession 9 School fundraising gp. 10 Household skills class, for short

11 “Let me handle it” 12 __ Lee desserts

13 Canine command 18 Elevs.

22 Mideast chieftain

25 Arthur of tennis 27 Dictation pro

30 Like dessert wines 31 Ambulance pro

32 007, e.g.

34 Figure skating figure 37 Sticky subject?

38 Musical Yoko

39 Get sassy with someone

40 Import-export imbalance

42 “Sadly ... ”

45 Newspaper opinion page 46 Norelco products 48 Pointed beard

49 Baked potato topping paired with sour cream 51 Piano piece

52 Some big box stores 53 Clinched, and a hint to the four longest Across answers

56 “... and two if by __” 57 __ up: robbed

58 Parisian gal pal

60 Latvian capital

63 Blow it

65 “Do the __”: soft-drink slogan