L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 News magazine whose
cover has a red border
5 Last year's frosh
9 Make merry
14 Grows older
15 German woman
16 Kansas governor Kelly
17 Gumdrops brand in a
yellow box
18 Fuel for Greek gods?
20 Present, as an idea
22 “I've heard enough,
thx”
23 Mystery Hunt sch.
24 Dirty sheets?
29 Meadow
30 1990s girl group
31 Fillet
32 “The Little Red Chairs”
novelist O'Brien
34 Wanted poster letters
36 Commedia dell'__
37 Really obnoxious infants? 41 Fruit tree in a Christmas
carol
43 Upper limb
44 Ireland, to a native
speaker
48 U-shaped river bends
51 Security aid, briefly
53 First name of two Spice Girls
54 Commit to eating leafy
greens exclusively?
57 Pt. of ABV
58 Letter after pi
59 Fast-food chain with retro
flair
60 “I'm absolutely not interested,” and an apt title for this puzzle
65 Lack
66 When “The Room Where
It Happens” happens
67 Desert plateau
68 Decorative pitcher
69 Some big-box stores
70 Seeing things
71 Start over
DOWN
1 Pond youngster
2 “Oops, my bad!”
3 Many a baseball
enthusiast in Queens
4 OPI rival
5 Bay Area hub, for short 6 Fla. NBA team
7 Fee-based service
8 Ran smoothly
9 Yalie
10 French body of water 11 Enhance
12 Many a new hire
13 Vane point
19 Accumulate, with “up”
21 Demo letters
25 Generous slice of cake
26 Gross
27 Flanged girder
28 Viking tongue
33 Addis __, Ethiopia
35 Judicial org.
38 Nickname of the slugger who was the youngest player to hit 600 home runs
39 Killer whale
40 Actor Epps
41 Painter nicknamed “Jack
the Dripper”
42 Carry out
45 “Mind. Blown.”
46 Like some sugar
47 High-voltage enemy of
Spider-Man
49 Heartfelt
50 Hatch a plot
52 Rx writers
55 Bunk
56 Farther down
57 Smoothie berry
61 Actress/director Vardalos 62 “__ better to have loved
and lost ... “
63 Put to work
64 Some grad students, for
short