L.A. CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Intro courses?

5 Female turkeys

9 Features of some islands

14 Attract

15 Lotion ingredient

16 Sleeper's rumble

17 Mascot who pursued the

Hamburglar

20 Dutch cheese

21 Right at sea?

22 So last year

23 Mascot with a goatee and

a string tie

28 Flying fig.

29 Carve up a black

diamond?

30 Currier and __

31 Entreaty

33 Shade tree

35 Service charge

36 Mascot “born in the Sea

of Milk”

41 Choice indicators

42 English pronoun

43 Excursion

45 Océano contents

47 “Sorta”

49 Estadio cheer

50 Mascot who says, “I want

to eat your cereal!”

55 Samantha Bee's former

network

56 Calgary summer hrs.

57 Left at sea?

58 Marketing strategies, and what the mascots in this puzzle have all been given?

64 With 40-Down, legal scholar played by Kerry Washington in HBO's “Confirmation”

65 Past regulation, briefly

66 Smooch in a lift

67 Cat collar dangler

68 Affixes a patch, say

69 Hushed “Hey!”

DOWN

1 Verb on a dipstick

2 Paid intro?

3 Protected, in a way

4 Greta Thunberg, notably

5 Ones who work with

bowlers and boaters

6 Yalie

7 Super stars

8 “Buh-bye!”

9 Govt. stipend

10 Dutch banking giant with

an orange lion logo

11 “I give!”

12 Alison in the Bluegrass

Music Hall of Fame

13 Chip off the old flock?

18 Sonata and Cadenza

19 “__-Hur”

23 Missing segment

24 Spanish pronoun

25 Singer/activist Downs

26 French Lord

27 __ planner

32 Affaire de coeur

34 NYC FC's org.

35 Just-brewed carafes of

coffee, e.g.

37 Kirkuk's country

38 Smart

39 Salad topping

40 See 64-Across

44 Storied cause of royal

insomnia

45 Radio setting

46 Like the streets in some

period pieces

48 Nocturnal call

51 Strike caller

52 Elba of “The Suicide

Squad”

53 Curling target

54 Brittle

55 Taiwan's first female

president

59 “When do u get in?”

60 Old futon problem

61 Lower a pitch?

62 Figs.

63 “__ Pepper's Lonely

Hearts Club Band”