LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Home on the range

6 Hardly wimpy 11 Film watcher’s

channel

14 Take the honey

and run 15 “Encore!”

16 Évian water 17 *Power outage

standbys

19 Digital readout, for

short

20 Up the creek

21 “I, Claudius” star

Jacobi

23 RSVP part

24 *“I don’t care if you made plans, cancel them” 28 Airplane assignment 31 Escape 32 Man-to-man defense alternative

33 Treat like a dog? 35 Place for a “ped”

to cross 38 Bobbsey girl 39 *Morally upright

person

43 __-fi

44 Big rig 45 Bandleader

Lombardo 46 Beanery sign 48 Ticker tape

letters?

50 Award adjective 53 *Stretch between

two Bushes 57 “Huh!?”

59 __ squash 60 Language spoken

by Jesus 63 Bygone airline 64 Ballpark brushback, perhaps ... and a hint to each set of circled letters 67 Rock’s Fleetwood

__

68 Code name 69 Driving instructor’s urgent reminder 70 “Hometown Proud” supermarket chain 71 Weapon with a hilt

72 Fills completely

DOWN

1 TV host Philbin 2 “Jagged Little Pill” co-songwriter Morissette

3 Old register key 4 They report to

sgts.

5 Pile

6 Barbie’s company 7 Get on in years 8 Aries or Taurus 9 Like many yoga practitioners 10 Beginning 11 Ringer in la casa 12 Wool coat that is often plaid 13 Something to

chew

18 Holiday quaff 22 Cartoonist Chast 25 Source of increased government revenue 26 Overlook 27 Common base 29 Auto financing

abbr.

30 Afternoon affairs 34 Even score 36 Pester

37 Pub __: casual

fare

39 Rascal

40 Bolivian border

lake

41 Fed. agents 42 Deli choice 43 Brief time 47 __-Caps: candy 49 Marked for the class

51 Go after, as a fly 52 “The Masked Singer” judge Robin

54 Cuts back 55 Currently airing 56 “All bets __ off” 58 Flu symptoms 61 LAPD alerts 62 Actress Sorvino 63 Texter’s “No more

details!” 65 Sellout letters 66 Leb. neighbor