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