LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sneaker feature

5 Balance scale

container

8 Plays the role of 14 Milky white gem 15 Focus of modernday surfing

16 Most achy

17 *Spends time in

the gym

19 Shrimp entrée

20 Prime meridian

std.

21 Make into law

23 Quaking tree

24 One of the Coen

brothers

26 *Upscale eatery service for topper wearers

28 Big-time celeb

31 P-like Greek letter

32 ACLU issues

33 Smell really bad 34 Crosses (out)

36 Antiquated

38 James Taylor classic … or, respectively, what can precede the two words in each answer to a starred clue

42 “__ on my

watch!”

43 Chaney of horror

films

44 Where some

surfers shop 47 Nonprofit URL

ending

50 __ Lingus

52 Ophthalmologist’s

field

54 *Times Square New Year’s Eve custom

57 Calf-length skirts 58 Like the sea when waves are crashing

59 NFL Dolphins’

home

62 Bloodshot

63 Broadway’s Ethel 65 *When employment ends, formally

67 Cheese in some

bagels

68 Freight weight

69 Old Spice

competitor

70 Balanced

conditions

71 Aardvark’s morsel 72 Common flag

symbol

DOWN

1 Transmission choice for steep ascents

2 Biblical disciple

3 One driving the

wrong way?

4 Lodge member

5 Menial laborer

6 Océano filler

7 V-shaped slit

8 Pack animal

9 Pepsi rival

10 Vandalize

11 Start of the

Marines’ motto 12 Appearance

13 Smells really bad 18 Dispatched

22 Driveway material 25 Welcome to one’s

home

27 Like rosebushes 29 New Hampshire

prep school town 30 Actor Stephen

35 NBC weekend

show

37 Cinque times due 39 Blowup on the

highway

40 Buck’s partner

41 Annual hoops player selection event

45 Short operatic

solo

46 “Whatever you

say, honey”

47 Trumps’ White House predecessors

48 Least cooked

49 Vocalist Estefan 51 CD follower

53 Radiate

55 Asian priests

56 Michelangelo

masterwork

60 Neural transmitter 61 Like new

64 Turndowns

66 Courtroom figs.