L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

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1 Continent with 11 time zones 5 Gift for a creative kid 11 Slyly include in an email, for short 14 Textile machine 15 “Who __ thunk it?” 16 Significant time span 17 Early stage of most tornados 19 Smallish batteries 20 Knotted up 21 Actress Basinger 22 Former Clannad singer 23 Terrible twos, one hopes 24 Bikini Bottom fry cook 27 Pacific current 29 “Fan-cee!” 30 Curiosity org. 31 Practitioner of total patient care 35 Neon or Freon 36 Common nickname for a redhead 39 “Oh, puh-leeze!” 42 Congregation leader 43 Fail to include 47 Turkish inn 49 At full volume 51 Hashtag symbol 55 Dog-__: folded at the corner 56 Ward of “Sisters” 57 SADD concern 58 “The Grouchy Ladybug” writer Carle 59 “Conan” channel 60 Easy-peasy ... or a hint to the start of 17-, 24-, 36and 51-Across 64 Seine water 65 Puts into law 66 At once, in many poems 67 Sales __ 68 Some digital watches 69 Polliwog home

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1 ET from Melmac 2 Watts Towers neighborhood, briefly 3 Greek islanders of old 4 “Who am I?” speaker, perhaps 5 Leatherworking tool 6 Is totally awesome 7 Dutch flower 8 MLB replay aid 9 College URL suffix 10 Bit 11 Pliable seat 12 Coloring name since 1903 13 Winter melons 18 Paradise 22 Skinny swimmer 23 Home near a barn 25 Cosa __ 26 Show up for 28 “Darn it all” 32 Surg. centers 33 Used car site 34 “Who am __ judge?” 37 Pretended to be 38 Icy end-of-the-world region 39 Trendy type often parodied on “Portlandia” 40 Slide organisms 41 Calls on the carpet 44 Rivera in Cooperstown 45 “Seems to me,” in dialect 46 Danson of “The Good Place” 48 Genetic “messenger” initials 50 Most steaks 52 Notions 53 Fashion brand identified by interlocking G's 54 2012-'18 Mexican president 60 Push-up target, for short 61 __ bind: stuck 62 CIA forerunner 63 Close