LA TIMES DAILY 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 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 late-night countdown 35 Also-ran 37 Three or four

40 Soccer star Hamm

45 Let (up) 47 Cartoon frame 50 Officiate at a cook-off, 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