12/16/16 Answer LA Times Crossword

12/16/16

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1D
Vegetation in underwater forests
KELP

2D
Aviation pioneer Sikorsky
IGOR

3D
Chisholm Trail city
WACO

4D
Test pattern
INKBLOT

5D
U-verse provider
ATT

6D
Comforter
DUVET

7D
Sorbonne student
ELEVE

8D
Large soda bottle label word
LITER

9D
Henry Ford, e.g.
EPONYM

10D
Excavating aid
BACKHOE

11D
Hive member
DRONE

12D
Think alike
AGREE

13D
Mountain air
YODEL

18D
Fair-hiring agcy.
EEOC

24D
Draped garment
TOGA

25D
Zigzagged
WOVE

26D
Some TVs
RCAS

27D
Offhand greeting
OH HI

28D
Discounted buy
CASE

32D
Split-resistant wood
ELM

33D
See 61-Down
SEA

34D
Stress
TAX

36D
Trot, say
GAIT

37D
Skilled
ABLE

38D
Source of tweets
NEST

40D
Beginning to cure?
PEDI-

41D
When repeated, Cult Jam singer
LISA

44D
Driver’s gadget
GOLF TEE

46D
Source of flowing water
OPEN TAP

48D
“CSI” setting
DNA LAB

50D
Sci. concerned with biodiversity
ECOL

51D
Multiple Emmy-winning legal drama
LA LAW

52D
Missouri river
OSAGE

53D
Usually disappointed one
LOSER

54D
Sales figure
GROSS

55D
Side in a decades-long war
PEPSI

56D
Tied
LACED

60D
Peseta replacer
EURO

61D
With 33-Down, part of it is now a desert
ARAL

62D
Exec’s reminder
MEMO

65D
Purpose
USE

1A
Bird that’s a national symbol
KIWI

5A
“Chasing Pavements” singer
ADELE

10A
Party time, casually
B-DAY

14A
Eddie __, detective involved in the actual “French Connection”
EGAN

15A
Spring bloomer
TULIP

16A
Former constellation that included Vela (the sail)
ARGO

17A
“Don’t waste your money on that pendant”?
LOCKET VETO (“pocket veto”)

19A
Insulated cable
CORD

20A
Thorough investigation
PROBE

21A
Opposite of bumpy
EVEN

22A
Pants part
KNEE

23A
Spinner in a numbers game?
LOTTERY WHEEL (“pottery wheel”)

26A
Elaborate in design
ROCOCO

29A
It’s heard in a herd
MOO

30A
Online service option
CHAT

31A
Daring exploit
GEST

35A
One eschewing leather, perhaps
VEGAN

39A
Satisfied sounds
AHS

40A
Pub pick
PALE ALE

42A
Presidential nickname
ABE

43A
Long bout
SIEGE

45A
Start of something big?
MAXI-

46A
Quiets, in a way
OILS

47A
Quirky
ODD

49A
Hills of Rome, e.g.
SEPTET

51A
Hammock?
LOLLING PLACE (“polling place”)

57A
Beginning
AS OF

58A
Square figure
AREA

59A
Early or late hr., depending
ONE AM

63A
Go on
LAST

64A
Pruning ideology?
LOP CULTURE (“pop culture”)

66A
Pulitzer-winning author James
AGEE

67A
Sure-footed critters
ASSES

68A
Composer Khachaturian
ARAM

69A
“What __ you thinking?”
WERE

70A
Not a hit, usually
B-SIDE

71A
Sport that hints at this puzzle’s theme
POLO