L.A. Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Sticky pine product 6 First word of a rhyming

cocktail name

9 Family name in Kafka’s

“The Metamorphosis”

14 Scotch-Brite sponge

15 Like this clue’s number

16 Change, as text

17 *Fleet of government

vehicles

19 Flustered (by)

20 Red Cross supply

21 Philosopher Descartes

23 Alphabet finale

24Venue

25 *Payment method

that may have a chip

28 Pro vote on the House

floor

29 Blue ink cartridge for a

color printer

30 Storm-tracking device

34 “ER” actor Wyle

37 Barbed _ _

40 *Media briefing

43 Part of a “Scream”

costume

44 Not in favor of

45Impeccable

46 Foot soldier

48 Pi follower in the

Greek alphabet

50 *Summertime java order

54 Engrave deeply 58 Neither’s partner

59 Port or scope prefix

60Attraction 62Dodge

64 Living-room lamp holders, and what the answers to the starred clues all have?

66 Like un enfant

67 Pitching superstar

68 “_ _ are red ... “

69 Deuce toppers

70 Fix a hem, say

71 Not ignoring the alarm

DOWN

1Frolics

2 Bacteria in undercooked

meat

3 Adjusted to, as a

thermostat

4 “No medals for me this

time”

5 Social standard

6 _ _ shu pork

7Idolize

8 Sat at a light, say

9 The “S” of OSHA

10 Doc’s gp.

11 Theater seating section

12 Disdainful lip curl

13 Tacked on

18 Walk and walk

22 Not mainstream

26 Talked and talked

27 Sounded like a crow 28 Four-digit DOB nos.

30 Tach stat

31 Parseghian of Notre

Dame football fame

32 Willing to take

extreme measures

33Queried

35 Ottawa’s prov.

36Blazing 38 Small-screen pioneer

39 Snaky fish

41 Lakeside boat rental

42 Kia subcompact

47 Groups of eight

49 Miami hoopsters

50 Likely to err

51 _ _ charge: entry fee

52 Pests that may prompt a visit to the vet

53 Yard sticks?

54 Armrest occupier

55 Oklahoma’s secondlargest city

56 Small stream

57 “Siddhartha” novelist

Hermann

61 Croft played by

Angelina Jolie

63 Craft kit letters

65 Morning moisture