L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Amendment dealing with states' rights
6 Hobby shop buy 9 Longtime Wall Street name
14 Spanish month
15 Draft pick
16 Outfielder Mike who finished first (twice) or second (three times) in 2012-2016
A.L. MVP voting
17 Alien reptile in “Avatar”? 19 Snake, e.g.
20 Racks up
21 Corpulent
23 Connecting point
24 “Bad Moon Rising” band, initially
26 First of a series
29 Small amount
31 Worked the soil
33 Shopper stopper? 34 TV schedule abbr. 36 Buttonhole, say 38 Affirmative action
39 Bit of horseplay
42 Pest that's gotten into the cheese? 44 Castilian kin
45 GP gp.
46 Mex. miss 47 Jr. and sr.
49 Brass component
51 Bit of swearing
53 Slate et al., for short 57 Merchant ship flotilla 59 Ring bearer
61 Baker
62 Sprite flavor
64 Stage bit
66 North African site of a 1943 conference 68 Long-eared mascot of an L.A. newspaper?
70 Stun
71 “We've exceeded seating capacity” sign
72 Gauge
73 Chief Justice after Marshall
74 It's big in London
75 Salad green
DOWN
1 Letter?
2 Captivate
3 Area 51 locale
4 Cut into three equal parts 5 Keeps to oneself
6 Lawn gnomes, e.g. 7 Snapchat had one in Mar. 2017
8 Poi source 9 Antibiotic target
10 Crops up
11 Tiny insect that casts spells?
12 Peach, e.g.
13 Orch. section
18 Old nuclear agcy.
22 __ harm
25 Promising
27 Wells race
28 Make over
30 Drops off
32 Brownie, in folklore
35 Dry gulch
37 Rubber in a boot?
39 __ Strip
40 “The Kite Runner” boy
41 One of a group of feline predators?
43 “Give __ rest!”
48 Overwhelm
50 Strong-arm
52 Mark of “NCIS”
54 Do the Wright thing? 55 Types
56 Nasty smiles
58 Idaho's __ Mountains 60 Fluke-to-be
63 Black-box analyzers: Abbr. 65 Camp Pendleton letters 66 K.C. hours
67 “Caught you!”
69 Rage