Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Thursday September 22nd 2016, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 It’s often a stretch LIMO
5 Grim, as a landscape STARK
10 Debit card choice VISA
14 Superstar IDOL
15 Command ORDER
16 Troublesome tykes IMPS
17 Bad-blood situation FEUD
18 One out for blood VAMPIRE BAT
20 Some browns TANS
21 Number in an outline, perhaps III
22 Put in stitches SUTURE
23 Variety show array TALENTS
26 Disdainful look SNEER
27 Holes in sneakers EYELETS
29 Cruising ASEA
31 Slender-stemmed palm RATTAN
32 Where to see a wake AFT
33 Botch MUFF
37 Lease alternative OWN
38 Babies, or what some babies wear PAMPERS
41 Historic beginning? PRE-
42 Kentucky Fried side SLAW
44 Brewery fixture VAT
45 In-groups ELITES
47 Irish New Age singer ENYA
49 Runs aground BEACHES
50 Striped quartz AGATE
53 Pork-filled pastry, e.g. MEAT PIE
55 Ruined in the kitchen BURNED
57 Brooke Baldwin’s network CNN
58 Auto parts giant NAPA
61 Pearl Harbor battleship USS ARIZONA
63 Third-generation Genesis name ENOS
64 Remote button with a square STOP
65 Capital on the Willamette SALEM
66 Pedometer measure STEP
67 Many millennia EONS
68 Sky scraper? SPIRE
69 Stage layouts SETS
DOWN
1 Garage contraption LIFT
2 What a light bulb may mean IDEA
3 Europe’s highest active volcano MOUNT ETNA
4 Veteran seafarer OLD SALT
5 Cold War Baltic patrollers SOVIET NAVY
6 Coaches TRAINS
7 Acknowledge ADMIT
8 Account exec REP
9 Angel who replaced Jill, in ’70s TV KRIS
10 ”The Deer Hunter” setting VIETNAM
11 Saturate (with) IMBUE
12 Let off the hook SPARE
13 Late bloomer? ASTER
19 Bit of subterfuge RUSE
24 Entrechat, e.g. LEAP
25 Call at home SAFE
27 Lover of Psyche EROS
28 Ketch kin YAWL
30 Green sign information, traditionally STREET NAME
32 Suitable APT
34 Raise stakes in a game… and a hint to a hidden feature of five Down puzzle answers UP THE ANTE
35 Like many apps FREE
36 Cop to the crime, with “up” FESS
39 Address with an apostrophe MA’AM
40 Smack SLAP
43 Wings eaters’ needs WET-NAPS
46 Aloof demeanor ICINESS
48 ”In thy dreams!” NE’ER!
49 Hung sign BANNER
50 Treat badly ABUSE
51 Zest GUSTO
52 Illegal firing ARSON
54 USDA inspector’s concern E COLI
56 Ph.D. hurdle DISS
59 Well-versed artist? POET
60 Deadly slitherers ASPS
62 Fast-forward through ZAP
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