L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Natural sand bank

5 Historic times

9 Standing at attention, say

14 Diva's solo

15 Meter starter

16 Cookie maker's tool

17 Oxymoronic '80s sci-fi

film title

20 “Jeopardy!” contestant

21 Cub slugger

22 Paradise

23 Anasazi home setting

25 “__ the season ... ”

27 Crowd no., often

28 Out-of-the-way access

33 It's its own square

34 Nice water?

35 Lanai greeting

39 '70s-'80s series about the Drummond family

... and what the starts of four long answers are

44 Enjoying a scone, maybe

45 Call to Jude?

46 RN workplaces

47 Place for a pen

52 African snake

55 Major NJ airport

56 Prepare to mail

57 Small deer 59 NYC's __ River

61 Salamanca snacks

65 Seafood order

68 Frisky swimmer

69 “The Clan of the Cave

Bear” protagonist

70 Fencing tool

71 Feature of Mike and Ike

candy?

72 Pour

73 Look after

DOWN

1 Quick Draw's sidekick __

Looey

2 Historic times

3 “Casablanca” hero

4 Bully's challenge

5 Turmoil

6 Enjoys the beach, say

7 Canyon comeback

8 Afternoon break

9 Long-legged runner

10 Serious ceremony

11 Radiate

12 Roman goddess of

agriculture

13 Stoke-on-__: English city

18 Plant with a trunk

19 Gladly, to Shakespeare

24 Old-time knife 26 Sign of surgery

28 Pop at a counter29 Down

but not out

30 Slick

31 Babe and a doctor

32 “Do Ya” rock gp.

36 “That's enough!”

37 “You are __”: mall map

info

38 Exec.'s helper

40 Big mo. for chocolate

purchases

41 Steakhouse order

42 Established method

43 Work at a keyboard

48 Pretty pitcher

49 1994 Peace co-Nobelist

with Rabin and Peres

50 Solemn vow

51 Brit's Bordeaux

52 Garden recess

53 TV's “__ Park”

54 Tom of the Traveling

Wilburys

58 Stop, as a flow

60 Roy Rogers' birth name

62 Plumbing part

63 “Right you are!”

64 Went too fast

66 Before, to a poet

67 Yosemite __