L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Teensy
5 Box for tea leaves 10 Japanese box lunch
15 Tree with an oil-rich seed 16 Streamlined
17 Frank __ Wright
18 “Long time no see” follower
20 Old enough
21 “Lady and the __”
22 Traffic signals
24 Possesses
25 Stage of grief
26 Smartens (up) 28 Manhattan liquor
29 Full of activity
34 “Ben-Hur” extras
37 “Now it's clear” 38 Sonogram subject
39 Sticks (out)
42 Had a nice chitchat
44 __ out a living
45 Ahead
47 Not for kids, filmwise 49 One whose wages come from wagers
50 Slugger Hank
51 Feel crummy 54 Rum-flavored cakes 56 River mouth formation
58 Far from friendly
60 Steep headlands 64 With deleted scenes included
65 Passover staple
67 Likely to goof
69 Dam that created Lake Nasser
70 Simoleons
71 Cookie cooker
72 Pork cuts
73 Goad
74 Twitter headquarters?
DOWN
1 Beatty/Hoffman box office flop
2 Sticky
3 Water treatment plant input
4 “I did good!”
5 Fort Collins sch. 6 Actress Jessica
7 One in the headlights? 8 Critter on XING signs 9 Informal “See what I mean?”
10 Come into one's own 11 Pixie
12 Craft for six puzzle answers
13 Rapper whose name sounds like a big cat 14 Poems of praise 19 “A Wrinkle in Time” (2018) actress 23 Electrically connected with
27 Plant firmly
30 “So what?!”
31 Can. neighbor
32 Ref, slangily
33 Last critter in an ABC book
35 TV's “Science Guy”
36 Lawn starter
37 Honshu port
39 Chore
40 “One card left!” game warning
41 12-Down queueing pattern depicted by six puzzle answers
43 Corn unit
46 Science fair awards 48 Ultimately become
51 Nook
52 58-Down default music program
53 Under the surface
55 “So I was wrong!” 57 Defunct scandal-plagued company
58 Apple computer
59 Toll lane choice
61 Throat trouble
62 Kissable fairy-tale critter 63 Unaccompanied
66 Ray gun sound
68 Legged it