L.A. Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Puzzle (out)

5 Synonymous

9 Software glitches

13 Leg joint

14 Slacks, slangily

15 Fall birthstone

16 Thing

17 Wag

18 Like an unswept

hearth

19 Watering hole where servers may wear leis

21 Animal Planet’s “Crikey! It’s the Irwins” co-star

23 Dead _ _ Scrolls

24 “The Memory of

Trees” singer

26 Youngsters

29 Quote

31 Linguist Chomsky

33 Org. concerned with

“forever chemicals”

34 Language related to

Czech

36 SHO subsidiary

37 Yemeni port

38 Residence

39 Pal

41 F-150 maker

42 Catch

43 Spy-fi org.

44 Breathing room 46 Unceasingly, in

poetry

47 Policy pro

48 Home turf?

49 President _ _

51 Pedicure targets

53 Saturn or Mercury

56 Asia’s _ _ Peninsula

58 Verification tool for online alcohol retailers, e.g.

60 Not that

62 Way to go

64 Furniture retailer that sells FIXA tool kits

65 Remove from power

66 Lip

67 Clockwork part

68 _ _ of life

69 “Clue” actress Madeline 70 Systems of principles

DOWN

1 Funny sketches

2 Loosen, as a bow

3 *Act the mediator

4 Interstate rig

5 Tale

6 Craft for the first

couples cruise?

7 Chandon’s partner

8 *Illinois alma mater of

Ronald Reagan

9 Scrabble surface 10 Desserts flipped after baking, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues

11 Exasperated cry

12 Underhanded

17 *”Malcolm in the

Middle” actress

20 _ _ test

22 Lip

25 Like the Dada

movement

27 Judith Weir

composition

28 Blondish

30 Tony winner Judith

32 Astonished letters

34 Subject of a latenight countdown

35 Also-ran

37 Three or four

40 Soccer star Hamm

45 Let (up)

47 Cartoon frame

50 Officiate at a cookoff, say

52 Like some granola

54 First-stringers

55 Brings up

57 Jedi with an unusual

speech pattern

59 Supermodel Hadid

60 Small fry

61 “Ben-_ _”

63 Exasperated cry