LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Chess result

5 “NASCAR on NBC” analyst Earnhardt Jr.

9 Metalworker

14 Cancun coin

15 A party to

16 Island near Maui 17 *Devoted ESPN

viewer

19 Uneasy feeling

20 Word after box or

law

21 Bullish sound?

22 Wail

23 *Spec for

sandpaper or salt 27 Coll. near the Rio

Grande

29 Hard rain

30 Dance class topic 31 First name in skin

care

33 Caddie’s offering 35 Make a wrong

turn, say

36 *Quarry that supplies aggregate

40 Guys

43 Jai __

44 Quebec’s __

Peninsula

48 Racecourse shape 50 Ready for bed,

briefly

53 Long-running CBS

series

54 *Garden walkway

component 57 Malarkey

58 Pachelbel work

59 Treasury secretary

Janet

61 Sahara features 62 Last player selected for a Wimbledon ranking … or part of each answer to a starred clue

65 Locale

66 Heck of a hike

67 Dell rival

68 Brings in

69 Actor Grant

70 Drive-__

DOWN

1 MLB rally killers

2 Researchers’

publications

3 To date

4 Klingon officer in the “Star Trek” franchise

5 ’70s hot spots

6 Strengthen, as

glass

7 Seuss’ Cindy __

Who

8 Suffix with exist

9 Language student’s challenge

10 Medieval estates 11 Thankless sort

12 Preferable,

gastronomically 13 Major success

18 Half a mint?

21 Contrived plot 22 Alert for an actor 24 Checkout printout 25 Unload, say

26 “Morning Edition”

airer

28 Alternative to

Margie

32 Noted period

34 Important

37 Square up

38 Hotel shuttles

39 Light earth tone 40 Short flight

41 Hurricane mandate responder

42 Tropical grassland 45 Sudden stop

sound

46 Trailblazer

47 “C’__ la vie!”

49 Umpire’s pregame

request

51 Olympic star

Jackie __-Kersee 52 Deceptive

55 Wine qualities

56 Building wing

60 Challenge for an

atty. wannabe

61 TiVo, for one

62 Agcy. concerned

with fraud

63 Gershwin brother 64 R&B’s __ Hill