LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Tripoli’s country
6 College grad
10 Kill, as a dragon
14 Thorny plant
15 Latina toon explorer
16 Scrabble piece
17 If Nicholson sang, danced and acted, he might be called __
20 GQ or Cosmo
21 Photographed
22 Inhumane
27 Salty drops
31 Big name in PCs
32 __ pork: Chinese dish with pancakes
35 “High” afternoon meal
36 Forbidden
38 Series of missed calls
40 If Robinson left En Vogue to sing in Jerry Garcia’s group, she might be called __
43 Dog food seller
44 Crop up
46 Soul, to Sartre
47 Polar parka
50 Passionate about
51 Winona of “Stranger Things”
53 Brings good luck to
55 Taunt
58 Drone or worker
59 If Tomlin came from San Fernando, she might be called __
67 Trim, as a photo
68 Dry forecast 69 Religious doctrine
70 Credit card balance, say
71 Benchmarks: Abbr.
72 Jerk or twitch
DOWN
1 JFK’s successor
2 Nest egg initials
3 Flickable lighter
4 Go on and on
5 Kitchen allure
6 Samuel Barber’s “__ for Strings”
7 Cyberchortle
8 Web addresses
9 Subject with numbers
10 Georgia or Washington
11 Pot cover
12 It may be blonde or pale
13 “Roundabout” rockers with a positive name
18 Word before hand or land
19 Capitol feature
22 Cave hanger
23 Plato’s school, with “the”
24 Paid back, as a purchase incentive
25 Tweezer targets
26 Whirlybirds
28 Realizes, as a goal
29 Entertains with a bedtime story
30 Give in to gravity
33 Recital rebuke
34 Flower bed tool
37 Province on four Great Lakes
39 Spooky
41 Bass ending
42 Pendulum direction?
43 Links standard
45 Seemingly forever
48 Orange-yellow gemstones
49 Ukraine’s capital
52 The Nile runs through it
54 Detectives’ aids
56 Bosom buds, in texts
57 Nouveau-Mexique, par exemple
59 TV screen type
60 Fury
61 Easy throw
62 Laid low
63 Cut (off)
64 JFK alternative
65 Maximum borders?
66 Oft-candied veggie