LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols

ACROSS

1

Some game pieces

5 Long-range nuke 9 Like horses

14 Palm whose oil is used in cosmetics

15 David

Copperfield wife 16 Barely, with “by” 17 Blades for

trimming blades 19 Futile

20 Channel that shows college games

21 Banquet offering 23 Any ship

24 Shine, in

adspeak

27 Evasive

28 Development that ended much development

34 Disinfectant brand since

1889

35 Nipper

36 Collapsed

39 Bell invention

with a bell

42 Farm mom

43 “Bravo!”

44 Unaccustomed

to

46 Club used at a

club

52 Centuries-old

discipline

53 Pod opening 54 Japanese

computer giant 57 Call dibs on,

with “to”

61 1736 writer of a seminal paper on graph theory

63 From an earlier

time

64 Wheels for carrying wheels

67 Setting for a Tony-winning Miller play

68 Persia, now

69 “Check this

out!”

70 Seriously weaken 71 Bind, in a way

72 Eye ailment

DOWN 1

2

Loses color PayPal payment, e.g.

3 Rubbernecked

4 __ Féin

5 “What will __

now?”

6 Intimidate

7 Two-time Cy Young

Award winner Saberhagen

8 Show amazement

(at)

9 Western Pacific

island capital

10 Alias 11 Proper __

12 Latin infinitive

13 Big game

18 Wet weather

word

22 Holiday mo.

25 Speak like

Sylvester

26 Texter’s “Then

again ... ”

29 Breed

30 One way to sing 31 Acid Rain

Program org.

32 Capek classic

33 Parrot

36 Bribe

37 “Aladdin” prince 38 After expenses 40 Colorful

salamander

41 Big-mouthed one that can hold its wine? 42 Sess.

45 Bye word

47 Recurred at

regular intervals 48 Loving request 49 “Hometown Proud” supermarket

50 Ace a test

51 Join

55 Tiny

56 Minotaur’s

home

57 Get rid of

58 Hardly around

the corner

59 Risk-taker’s

acronym

60 Actress

Sorvino

62 FedEx rival

65 Plan (out)

66 “A Chorus Line”

number