Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Wednesday February 22nd 2017, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1. Spot for an AirPod EAR
4. Chowder morsel CLAM
8. Moscow currency RUBLE
13. Slept like __ A LOG
15. Color in a Spanish rainbow ROJO
16. Religion of Basra ISLAM
17. Corn Belt tower SILO
18. Latin I verb AMAT
19. Riyadh resident SAUDI
20. *Fictional road material YELLOW BRICK
23. Bookshelf bracket shape ELL
24. Of a battery terminal ANODAL
25. Necessity for a game of Ultimate FRISBEE
27. History class assignment ESSAY
30. Elec. or water UTIL
31. __ a clue HASN’T
34. Slangy pounds QUID
36. Financial help LOAN
39. End __ USER
40. Tomato product PUREE
41. Preference indicator VOTE
42. Religious prefix THEO-
43. Grub EATS
44. Brought about LED TO
45. Tenerife, por ejemplo ISLA
47. Take the helm STEER
49. Surface layers VENEERS
52. Clogs from France SABOTS
56. Neurologist’s order, briefly EEG
57. *Cola flavor BLACK CHERRY
60. Pop-up foul-up ERROR
62. Stereotypical family spoiler NANA
63. Pulitzer-winning novelist Jennifer EGAN
64. Renaissance painter __ della Francesca PIERO
65. Minute quantity DROP
66. Fish __ TACO
67. Family car SEDAN
68. __-Coburg: former Bavarian duchy SAXE
69. Homer’s neighbor NED
DOWN
1. Class requiring little effort EASY A
2. Distant and then some ALIEN
3. Pal of Nancy, in comics ROLLO
4. Barely advances CRAWLS
5. Big name in vision care LOMB
6. Slightly open AJAR
7. Recurring theme MOTIF
8. Go out on a limb RISK IT
9. Stars and Stripes land: Abbr. USA
10. *One with noble lineage BLUE BLOOD
11. Crock-Pot server LADLE
12. French novelist Zola EMILE
14. *Floral papal ornament GOLDEN ROSE
21. Brewery kiln OAST
22. Input for a refinery CRUDE
26. *Chard, by another name SILVERBEET
28. Marine shade AQUA
29. Portable Mongolian dwellings YURTS
31. Simple dwelling HUT
32. Shade of gray ASH
33. Angrily ignoring the first half of the answers to starred clues? SEEING RED
35. Luck, pluck or duck ending -IEST
37. Part of D.A.: Abbr. ATT
38. Prefix with con NEO-
40. Shade of gray PEARL
44. Jacob’s wife before Rachel LEAH
46. James with three NBA titles LEBRON
48. Tunnel out, maybe ESCAPE
49. Many future presidents, as it turned out VEEPS
50. Like “Stranger Things,” e.g. EERIE
51. Metaphorical moments of time SANDS
53. Skin, but not bones ORGAN
54. Kind of evidence TRACE
55. Ecclesiastical council SYNOD
58. Word of amore CARA
59. Fort with billions in bullion KNOX
61. “… man __ mouse?” OR A
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