L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Puzzle (out)
5 Synonymous
9 Software glitches
13 Leg joint
14 Slacks, slangily
15 Fall birthstone
16 Thing
17 Wag
18 Like an unswept hearth
19 Watering hole where servers may wear leis
21 Animal Planet's “Crikey!
It's the Irwins” co-star
23 Dead __ Scrolls
24 “The Memory of Trees” singer
26 Youngsters 29 Quote
31 Linguist Chomsky
33 Org. concerned with “forever chemicals”
34 Language related to Czech
36 SHO subsidiary
37 Yemeni port
38 Residence
39 Pal
41 F-150 maker
42 Catch
43 Spy-fi org.
44 Breathing room
46 Unceasingly, in poetry
47 Policy pro
48 Home turf?
49 President __
51 Pedicure targets
53 Saturn or Mercury
56 Asia's __ Peninsula
58 Verification tool for online alcohol retailers, e.g.
60 Not that
62 Way to go
64 Furniture retailer that sells FIXA tool kits
65 Remove from power
66 Lip
67 Clockwork part
68 __ of life
69 “Clue” actress Madeline
70 Systems of principles
DOWN
1 Funny sketches
2 Loosen, as a bow
3 *Act the mediator
4 Interstate rig
5 Tale
6 Craft for the first couples cruise?
7 Chandon's partner
8 *Illinois alma mater
of Ronald Reagan
9 Scrabble surface
10 Desserts flipped after baking, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues
11 Exasperated cry
12 Underhanded
17 *”Malcolm in the Middle” actress
20 __ test
22 Lip
25 Like the Dada movement
27 Judith Weir composition
28 Blondish
30 Tony winner Judith
32 Astonished letters
34 Subject of a late-night countdown
35 Also-ran
37 Three or four
40 Soccer star Hamm
45 Let (up)
47 Cartoon frame
50 Officiate at a cook-off, say
52 Like some granola
54 First-stringers
55 Brings up
57 Jedi with an unusual speech pattern
59 Supermodel Hadid
60 Small fry
61 “Ben-__”
63 Exasperated cry