LA TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Mixes in
5 Pricing word 9 Tidied, as a lawn
14 “An Officer and a
Gentleman” star
15 Run the show
16 Many a flower girl
17 Lotion component
18 Wyoming national park
20 Charmin maker, familiarly
22 Put forward
23 Needle hole
24 Nocturnal birds of prey
26 Chicken tikka __
30 “Everything must go” event
32 De-pleat?
34 Hor. map line
35 Guitar lesson basics
37 Military title for POTUS
38 JFK alternative
39 “Tabula rasa” philosopher John
40 Video chat annoyance
41 Live coal
43 Hobbit enemy
44 __ polish
46 “The View” Emmy winner Shepherd
47 Purpose
48 Gurgling sound
49 Post-WWII alliance
50 “Wiggle” singer Jason
52 Sushi prep verb
54 Brewpub barrel
57 Meditate on
59 Gibbons of talk TV
61 “No need to mince words”
65 __ pricing
66 Think alike
67 “West Side Story” pair
68 Old character
69 The Brownings, e.g.
70 Garden annoyance
71 Newspaper commentary
DOWN
1 Obviously impressed
2 Supply chain inconvenience
3 Sport with teams of quadcopters
4 Tourney rank
5 Rowing machine,
informally
6 Hearing-related
7 Period of the Peloponnesian Wars
8 Layers on a farm
9 Foyer
10 Eating patterns
11 Word before “Shorty,” “Smart,” “Hard,” and “Out,” in film titles
12 Environmental prefix
13 Bear’s lair
19 Evil spirit
21 Hollywood Foreign Press Association awards
25 Director Craven
27 Emotionally crushed, and an apt description of the circled elements in this puzzle?
28 Beer choice
29 Centipede maker
31 Ararat lander
33 Semi
35 Billowy mass
36 Belmont Stakes racer
40 Shang-Chi player Simu
42 Converged
45 Without help
46 Punkie Johnson’s NBC show
51 Part of a Cinderella story
53 Give a speech
55 Online periodical
56 __ community
58 Common result in championship chess
60 Currency
symbolized by €
61 Track circuit
62 Self-image
63 Italian three 64 Psychedelic letters