L.A. Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Plot points? 5 Reply-all email storm

deterrents

9 Horse breed native to the Middle East and North Africa

13 In a frenzy

14 Desert succulents

16 Common piercing spot

17 Beekeeper’s valentine?

19 Chaucer chapter

20 Up and about

21 Meditation retreat

23 “Karma is a _ _ / Purring in my lap ‘cause it loves me”: Taylor Swift lyric

25 Juice barista’s

valentine?

28 Almost overflow

30 Yokohama drama

31 Consumer advocate Ralph

32 Spanish title 35 Hardware store purchase

37Optometrist’s

valentine?

41 Yemeni port

42 Buys time

45 Packs in, as coffee

49 Performer’s routine

51 Nursery rhyme vessel

52Aesthetician’s

valentine?

56Snoop 57 “Never would have

thought”

58 Vegas lights

60 Monopoly payment

61 Baker’s valentine?

66 Midrange voice type

67 “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse” writer

68 Spicy _ _ roll

69 Devious plan

70 Parking lot mishap

71 Healthy piece

DOWN

1 “A Christmas Carol” cry

2 Intense music genre

3 Making a gift of

4 Misrepresent, as data

5 Braided bread often filled with chocolate or cinnamon

6 Make aware

7Swindle

8 “Just wait a _ _”

9 Tennis and golf legend

Gibson

10 Showed displeasure like

a dragon

11Burning

12 Pricey German wheels,

informally

15 “Inside the NBA”

analyst, familiarly

18 Thanksgiving vegetable

22 Naturally bright

23 “Survivor” network

24 “_ _ we having fun yet?”

26 Never ever

27 “Get out!”

29 Dairy farm sound

33 Events with a lot of

insult comedy

34 Put in

36Allows

38 Two-time Emmy

winner Remini

39Snooze

40 Generous pour

43 Gloss target

44Wily

45 Sandal style

46 “Gosh darn it!”

47 Treating unkindly

48 Object in a game of

fetch

50 Connective tissue

53 Spanish “thing”

54Well-groomed 55 Trifling sum

59 Crypto artworks, for

short

62 Nickname for Edward

or Theodore

63 Not let go to waste

64 “Go-To Dinners”

cookbook writer Garten

65Capture