L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Prepare to get up from one's plane seat

7 Sucker for a flame

11 Camera letters

14 Hoi __

15 Mine, in Montreal

16 Rival

17 Mole, perhaps

19 Señora Perón

20 Palindromic woman's name

21 Either Bush

43 daughter

23 Bit of body ink

24 “The Black Cat” author

25 Locker room powders

26 Belgian expressionist James

28 Stun

32 Diamond Head locale

33 1974 musical based on a 1900 novel, with “The”

35 eBay offers

37 Drop off for a bit

38 “Amen!” ... or a hint to the start of four other long answers

42 Meter preceder

43 Lake formed by the Hoover Dam

44 “Told __!”

45 Lox variety

47 Burst forth

49 Language in which “w” and “y” are considered vowels

53 2010 Barack appointee

55 Parrot

57 Bothered a lot, with “at”

58 Braille is one

62 Sooner State city

63 Vivid dye

64 Olympic event featuring death spirals

66 Volleyball scoring unit

67 Small advantage

68 With 56-Down, type of black tea with another color in its name

69 Journal's end?

70 Gaelic gal

71 Persuasive pieces

DOWN

1 Reason for a restart

2 Political pundit Peggy

3 Numbs

4 Idris of “Luther”

5 “Kidding!” letters

6 Associate with

7 Ancient trio

8 Black cat, to some

9 Quite a lot

10 “Start the music!”

11 __ Savitskaya, first woman to perform a spacewalk

12 Modern customer support option

13 Reacts in fear, as a horse

18 Wonderstruck

22 __ Tomé and Príncipe

24 Spectrum maker

27 Potterverse courier

29 Cabin or castle

30 Chard alternative

31 Water whirled

34 Pizza pieces?

36 “Dred” novelist

38 Reveres

39 Heart-y message?

40 Upper limit

41 Color

42 __ hit: baseball single

46 Carrier to Tokyo

48 Rolls of money

50 Pacific weather phenomenon

51 Cheap

52 Risk-offsetting investments

54 Cosmetician Adrien

56 See 68-Across

59 When tripled, “et cetera”

60 Smokes, briefly

61 Crude metals

62 JFK board data

65 Cue followers