Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Friday October 6th 2023, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Rum mixer : COKE
5 Tarot suit : CUPS
9 Destructive bug : BORER
14 Receptive : OPEN
15 Draft choice : ONE-A
16 New car option : LEASE
17 *Litter collection vehicles? : PUP TRUCKS
19 Laudatory poet : ODIST
20 First baseball team to play in a dome : ASTROS
21 “Birthplace of Aviation” : OHIO
23 __ salt : SEA
24 *Malcolm’s status at the end of “Macbeth”? : ALIVE AND KING
27 Writer who populated the Hundred Acre Wood : AA MILNE
30 Shade in four-color printing : CYAN
31 Actor Reeves : KEANU
32 Mission control org. : NASA
35 Scale abbr. : LBS
37 Fish sticks fish : COD
38 *”Arf” or “meow”? : PET LINE
41 “Tubular!” : RAD
43 Trawling need : NET
45 Future atty.’s exam : LSAT
46 Quick-as-lightning Bolt : USAIN
48 City near the heel of Italy’s boot : BARI
50 Supplementary items : ADDENDA
52 *Source of friction when a messy person lives with a neatnik? : STY SITUATION
56 __-di-dah : LAH
57 See 26-Down : PENN
58 Regret not wearing a coat, say : FREEZE
62 Degrade : ABASE
64 Measure of grossness avoided in the answers to the starred clues? : ICK FACTOR
66 Forbidden things : NO-NOS
67 “America the Beautiful” pronoun : THEE
68 “Frozen” princess : ANNA
69 Beckett title character who is not in the cast : GODOT
70 Rise sky-high : SOAR
71 Fifth Avenue retailer : SAKS
DOWN
1 __ Mundial de Fútbol : COPA
2 Major work : OPUS
3 Maintained : KEPT
4 Board, in a way : ENTRAIN
5 Reunion attendee : COUSIN
6 5-Down’s dad, for short : UNC
7 Tea type : PEKOE
8 Obama daughter : SASHA
9 __ Mary : BLOODY
10 Wordsmith’s ref. : OED
11 Post production? : RAISIN BRAN
12 Steel city north of Cologne : ESSEN
13 Put on sale, say : RETAG
18 Arrive, as in a limo : ROLL UP
22 Like some ancient Peruvian pottery : INCAN
25 Air ducts : VENTS
26 With 57-Across, co-star in the “Harold & Kumar” film series : KAL
27 Pedigree registry since 1884: Abbr. : AKC
28 Long, long time : AEON
29 Like all ancient Peruvian pottery : MADE BY HAND
33 In the style of : A LA
34 Occupy, as a desk : SIT AT
36 “__ no one ever” : SAID
39 Top-tier : ELITE
40 Author Welty : EUDORA
42 Crime lab material : DNA
44 Some Ph.D. students : TAS
47 Native New Yorkers : SENECAS
49 Best for picking : RIPEST
51 “I beg to __” : DIFFER
52 Word on the street? : SLANG
53 Like 66-Across : TABOO
54 Liters and meters : UNITS
55 Dried Mexican chile : ANCHO
59 Sicilian mount : ETNA
60 Fall fast asleep, with “out” : ZONK
61 Eventful times : ERAS
63 Phillipa of “Hamilton” : SOO
65 Hawaii’s Mauna __ : KEA
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