LA TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Small earring 5 Mercedes line 11 Magazine with a satirical “fold-in” back cover

14 Bear in two

constellations 15 Bits of dust 16 Curling surface 17 “Two Tahitian

Women” painter 19 Testing site 20 Minute

21 SFO incoming

flight

22 Narrow cut 23 1965 Beau Brummels hit with the line “It seemed so funny to me” 27 Neverland pirate 28 Snap, crackle and pop

32 CPR expert 35 Media org. that tweets the Declaration of Independence on July 4

37 Partner of each 38 Southern lights 43 H.G. Wells genre 44 Moo__gaipan 45 Kin of -kin

46 Yet

48 Zodiac transition

point

51 Reuben ingredient 55 Adhesive strip 58 Bygone telecom

co.

59 Waited in line, say 62 “Ben-__” 63 13th/14th-century Mongol Empire region ... and an elemental hint to what’s found twice in each answer to a starred clue 66 The Nixon years, e.g.

67 Capital west of Krakow

68 Tiny amt. of time 69 “Great news!” 70 Autumn blooms 71 Fair

DOWN

1 Enjoys an evening meal

2 Magic Kingdom people mover 3 Customary 4 “Who Shot J.R.?”

show

5 That, in Tijuana 6 Apple core? 7 Sanctioned 8 Honda luxury

brand

9 Vail trail 10 Common ID 11 Pepper grinder 12 Berry from South America

13 It’s outstanding 18 In a funk 22 Hindu deity known as the Destroyer

24 Rowlands who won an Emmy for playing Betty Ford 25 Air filter acronym 26 Suffix with movie or church 29 What some bears do

30 Keystone State

port

31 Part of CNS: Abbr. 32 Dawn direction 33 Greatly

34 Donald Duck’s

nephews, e.g. 36 Throw __ 39 Beneficial 40 Latvian birthplace

of Baryshnikov 41 Bit of footwear 42 __ de force 47 Indulges 49 Bachelorette party

accessory 50 Deceptions 52 Razzle-dazzle 53 Blue __

Mountains 54 Trunk 55 “So__say” 56 Ambience

57 Use rosary beads,

say

60 Poetic tributes 61 Geometric art

style

63 Transcript fig. 64 Prefix with Asian 65 Wii forerunner,

briefly