L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Suggestions, informally 5 Many 40-Across works 9 Supplement

14 Monsieur's mine 15 Champagne designation 16 React to a loss

17 *Watch

19 Palestinian leader Mahmoud

20 Childish comeback 21 Increase, with “up”

23 Simian

24 *Jazzman Fats Waller, style-wise

29 “St. Louis Blues” composer

31 Huntsville's home: Abbr. 32 Nitrogen-based dye

33 Turow book set at Harvard 36 Quaking tree

40 *“Boulevard Montmartre” series painter

44 Krispy __

45 Room in una casa

46 __ bran

47 Corn unit

49 Sisters on whom “Little Women” was loosely based

52 *Understand

57 It may be inflated 58 Not bright

59 Dreadlocks wearer

62 Golfer with an “army” 65 Quake's origin, and a feature of the answers to starred clues

68 Walks unsteadily

69 Make over

70 “Star Trek” creator Roddenberry

71 Sore throat cause

72 Word with dash or happy 73 Novelist Ferber

DOWN

1 Female rodent, to Fernando

2 Arab chieftain 3 Returns

4 Afternoon break 5 Kimono sash

6 Anger

7 “Filthy” moolah 8 Expensive 9 Physicians' gp.

10 Bio info

11 City with the world's tallest building 12 Snares

13 Kickoff

18 Dirty work?

22 By way of 25 Object of much reverence 26 Newton fractions

27 Rueful word

28 Voyager org.

29 Eccentric

30 Überauthority

34 “Learn about the UV Index” org.

35 Pastel shade

37 Voiced one's opposition 38 Logician's “E” 39 Forget-me-__

41 “How __ Your Mother” 42 “Troublemaker:

Surviving Hollywood and Scientology” memoirist Remini

43 Brine has a lot of it

48 Signal to stop

50 Virologist's goal 51 Creamsicle flavor

52 Gets ready, with “up” 53 Long-billed wader

54 Copier cartridge

55 Places to tie up

56 Drive

60 Miss. neighbor

61 Plane measurement 63 Martinique, par exemple 64 Clairvoyant's claim 66 Journalist Tarbell

67 Steal, in slang