L.A. Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Mixes in

5 Pricing word 9 Tidied, as a lawn

14 “An Officer and a Gentleman” star

15 Run the show

16 Many a flower girl

17 Lotion component

18 Wyoming national park

20 Charmin maker,

familiarly

22 Put forward

23 Needle hole

24 Nocturnal birds of prey

26 Chicken tikka _ _

30 “Everything must go”

event

32De-pleat?

34 Hor. map line

35 Guitar lesson basics

37 Military title for POTUS

38 JFK alternative

39 “Tabula rasa”

philosopher John

40 Video chat annoyance

41 Live coal

43 Hobbit enemy

44 _ _ polish

46 “The View” Emmy

winner Shepherd

47Purpose

48 Gurgling sound

49 Post-WWII alliance 50 “Wiggle” singer Jason

52 Sushi prep verb

54 Brewpub barrel

57 Meditate on

59 Gibbons of talk TV

61 “No need to mince

words”

65 _ _ pricing

66 Think alike

67 “West Side Story” pair

68 Old character

69 The Brownings, e.g.

70 Garden annoyance

71Newspaper

commentary

DOWN

1 Obviously impressed

2 Supply chain

inconvenience

3 Sport with teams of

quadcopters

4 Tourney rank

5 Rowing machine,

informally

6Hearing-related

7 Period of the

Peloponnesian Wars 8 Layers on a farm 9Foyer 10 Eating patterns

11 Word before “Shorty,” “Smart,” “Hard,” and “Out,” in film titles

12 Environmental prefix

13 Bear’s lair 19 Evil spirit

21 Hollywood Foreign Press Association awards 25 Director Craven 27 Emotionally crushed, and an apt description of the circled elements in this puzzle?

28 Beer choice

29 Centipede maker

31 Ararat lander

33Semi

35 Billowy mass

36 Belmont Stakes racer

40 Shang-Chi player Simu

42Converged

45 Without help

46 Punkie Johnson’s NBC

show

51 Part of a Cinderella

story

53 Give a speech

55 Online periodical

56 _ _ community

58 Common result in

championship chess

60 Currency symbolized

byÛ

61 Track circuit

62Self-image

63 Italian three

64 Psychedelic letters