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