LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Geometry numbers

6 Shows displeasure (at) 11 Part of A&E?

14 Absorb

15 Ferrell’s “SNL” cheerleading

partner

16 Card-beats-card game 17 Fan on a farm? 19 Shakespearean title noun 20 Bee attraction

21 Wrestling place 22 “Armageddon” author 23 Chain founded by Ingvar

Kamprad

25 Movie trailers

27 Hors d’oeuvres for a horror

movie?

31 “Gotcha!”

32 Head of Paris

33 Like some escapes

37 Done in

39 AOL, e.g.

41 Aria, say

42 Watch all night, maybe 45 Topers

48 High flier until 2001 49 Surveillance snacks? 52 Make like the original 55 Hurry away

56 Place for a bid

57 Arabic “son of”

59 Syrup once used as a poison

remedy

63 No-frills bed

64 Finishing touch for a gastropod?

66 Aussie school

67 Cellist Casals 68 Capone henchman known

as “The Enforcer” 69 Whiskey choice

70 Sales rep’s friendly personality, e.g.

71 Early computer

DOWN

1 Part of NCAA: Abbr.

2 “Dirty Jobs” host Mike 3 Large-scale tale

4 Pretzel chain __ Anne’s 5 Deliver an address for

6 Soft cry

7 __ smasher

8 Tell

9 Many a junior high student 10 Polite title

11 Clued in

12 Zenith’s opposite

13 Slag

18 Liqueur word

22 Password creators 24 “Hamlet” beginning 26 Solid-rock link

27 Emotional outbursts 28 Guitarist Atkins

29 “I am woman, hear me __ ...

“: Helen Reddy lyric 30 “Steppenwolf” author 34 Former Dallas QB Tony 35 Hodgepodge

36 “Agreed!”

38 Irritable

40 Sound accompanying a

disappearance

43 From __ Z

44 Places to tie up

46 Spring bloom

47 Start of a job

50 Skewered foods

51 “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ __”:

1964 hit

52 Arise anew

53 Dark wood

54 “Sonatine Bureaucratique”

composer

58 Africa’s Blue __

60 __ Field: Mets’ home 61 Whodunit dog

62 Geek __

64 Place for a peel

65 “’Salem’s __”: Stephen King

novel