LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Prefix with bar 4 Purple color named for a flower

9 Kind of minister

or suspect 14 Habit wearer 15 “Mutiny on the

Bounty” captain 16 “Star Wars”

director George 17 Two-base hit:

Abbr. 18 Cloak-anddagger spy 20 Heroic tale 22 Direction of the

dawn

23 Easter egg

coloring 24 Typically yellow

tangy fruit 29 Quivery vocal

effect

30 Spanish eight 34 Of an arterial

trunk

38 Belle’s suitor 39 *Accessory metaphor for an accomplishment 44 Gas leak

giveaway

45 “I’m clueless” 46 City near Tahoe 47 Whiner 52 Spaghetti-in-acan icon

57 Emails a dupe to 60 Goddess for whom a month is named

61 Theater

segments

62 “I Can’t Help Myself ” Motown group ... and what’s comprised by 18-, 24-, 39and 52-Across’ starting words? 67 Frito-__

68 Old toga wearer 69 Frighten 70 Start for fab or

fix

71 Pinocchio’s

problem

72 Roll of the dice 73 “__ the DJ, I’m the Rapper”: 1988 album

DOWN

1 Behind on bills 2 Not up to snuff 3 Browsing the

Web, say

4 Scale units: Abbr. 5 Land in la mer 6 DMV certificate 7 Go along (with) 8 Tightfisted 9 Table setting

item

10 Snug bug’s place? 11 Covered, as a

cake

12 Numerous 13 Punta del __,

Uruguay 19 Recipe abbr. 21 Cell pic taker 25 Ark builder 26 Crazy as __ 27 X-rated stuff 28 Lynda Bird’s

married name 31 Average grade 32 Actor Holbrook 33 Not in the office 35 You, in French 36 With unnamed partners, in bus. names 37 Suspicious (of ) 39 Neither’s partner 40 Wordsworth’s

“__ to Duty” 41 Trucker’s unit 42 Gator kin 43 “Don’t __ word!”:

“Shh!”

48 “I’m freezing!” 49 Brewer Coors 50 Sign warning word about a watchdog 51 “Absolutely!” 53 Chinese ethnic

group

54 Water, in Cannes 55 At the head of

the line

56 Cookie baker’s

lot 57 Bottom-corner

PC key

58 Bok __: Chinese

cabbage 59 18-wheeler 63 One cheering for

the team 64 Sculler’s prop 65 Whiz

66 Stitch together