LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Oktoberfest mugs 7 Possessed

12 Battleship letters

15 Sit-up kin

16 Letter-shaped violin opening 17 “Picked” complaint

18 *Gift basket retailer known for cheese and smoked sausage

20 __-la-la

21 Director Brooks

22 Soccer family rides

23 More frigid

25 Lyrical

27 *Oktoberfest venues 31 “What’s up, __?”

33 Unlike Bond’s martini 34 Wunderkind

37 Highchair fashion

38 Seehorn of “Better Call Saul” 42 *Robin Williams drama set

at a prep school

46 Actress Hathaway

47 Texter’s caveat

48 Edit

49 Xylophone kin

53 Went first

54 *Classic Ford model 58 Window ledge

61 Low voice

62 Hammer target 64 Campground chain HQ’d in

Billings, MT

65 Natural resource 66 Essentials, or what the first words of the answers to the starred clues are 71 Broadcaster with regular

pledge drives

72 Deep-seated 73 Military gesture

74 Shaved head?

75 Skewered appetizer served

with peanut sauce 76 Seismic event

DOWN

1 Hard-to-like person

2 Did one’s best

3 Type of geometry 4 Ballpoint pen filler

5 GIs with chevrons 6 Landscaping bush 7 Compensate for

8 “Huh ... ?”

9 Fin. neighbor

10 Stately tree

11 Long for

12 Disentangle

13 Warning signal

14 Plays the lead

19 First name in fashion 24 Outmoded data readers on

PCs

26 Denounces

28 Corduroy ridges

29 Pinot __: white wine grape 30 Ann __, Michigan 32 Arresting figure? 34 Couple’s indiscretion, for

short

35 Female lobster

36 Rippled pattern

39 Judge on America’s Got Talent

40 Sci-fi aviators

41 Nautical “yes”

43 Mideast leader

44 Lara Croft: __ Raider

45 Animation collectible 50 Aphrodite’s love 51 Consisting of two parts 52 Galway Bay island group 54 Steakhouse order 55 Pluckable instruments 56 Computer operators 57 Quaint “performed” 59 State drawing

60 __ pointer

63 Letter-shaped brace 67 Spanish “a”

68 Blasting material 69 Aquaman’s realm 70 Foetbol fan’s cry