L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Simon __: kids' game

5 Not for kids, moviewise

11 Small amount

14 Shopper's memory aid

15 Aviator Earhart

16 Skating surface

17 “I had no __!”

18 It follows 35-Down

19 Milk grain

20 Imitative bird

22 Pioneering game

consoles

24 Reaction to a strange

object

28 Lengthy tales

31 e__: online instructional

guide

32 Shoot well under par, in

golf lingo

36 App purchaser

37 Serious criminal

39 Actress Anderson

40 Everest and K2: Abbr.

41 Out of practice

42 Lender's claim

43 Stick-in-the-__

44 Make like new, as old

furniture

46 Tater __: deep-fried

potato morsel

47 Parisian season

48 Semiannual occurrence that begins 18- and 66-Across 49 Opposite of WSW

50 Showed again

52 Bandage brand

53 Less adulterated

55 Summoned, as the

fiddlers three

58 Comfy shoe pad

61 With milk, as café

65 Crystal ball gazer

66 In 2021, it begins

September 22nd

70 Place to de-stress

71 Turkey neighbor

72 In twos, like socks

73 Nosh

74 Fathers' boys

75 Gets hot on Twitter

76 Many pop-ups

DOWN

1 Lose one's footing

2 Musical based on an

opera

3 Belgian river

4 Movie with R2-D2

5 Dreads sporter

6 Excite, with “up”

7 Thrice, in Rx's

8 New Haven alum

9 Kitchen dweller of song

10 Motley

11 Designer Christian

12 Smoothie berry dubbed a

superfood

13 Wagers 21 “I see” words

23 Ring-shaped reef

25 “Same drink

as always”

26 Semi-annual occurrence that begins 28- and 35-Down

27 Black-and-white, e.g.

28 It precedes 66-Across

29 Sharp-witted

30 Word with role or identity

33 Hang around

34 Common soccer

deadlock

35 It follows 66-Across

37 MHz measure

38 “Eli's Coming” songwriter

Laura

44 Kidney-related

45 Describes in detail

51 Squirrel's haul

54 Web address letters

56 Jumped

57 Widely known

58 Wife of Osiris

59 Fiddling emperor

60 Actor Connery

62 Away from port

63 Apple tablet

64 Body art, casually

67 Former Mideast org.

68 Deadlock

69 Keats' “Ode on

a Grecian __”