LA Times Daily Crossword December 25, 2019 Answers

1. "The Chosen" novelist Potok 6. Doofuses 12. Itinerary info 15. Light weight 16. Hullabaloo 17. "Your Moment of __": "The Daily Show" bit 18. Pretrial proceeding to determine if the accused is released or held during trial 21. Family unit 22. Ties up 23. Tawdry 30. Get-up-and-go 31. Peddle 32. Again, in Spanish 34. Having a low pH 37. Stop communicating 41. Master 42. Easy throw 44. Forget a date, e.g. 45. Actress Vardalos 46. Programmer's hint of a still bigger problem 50. Pines 52. Plays at, with "in" 54. Costa __ 55. Source of chips 58. Soothsayer's ability 61. Watering hole 63. Vicinity 64. Wake up ... or what five long Across answers do? 72. Chicken-king link 73. Polar jacket 74. Dishonorable fellow 75. Chop off 76. Big Apple area, with "the" 77. Nasser's successor

1. Northern Pacific catch 2. Cranberry or cherry 3. Bad picnic omen 4. Like beer on a summer day, ideally 5. __ Park: Edison lab site 6. Japanese faith 7. Dove's call 8. Dearie 9. Speed letters 10. Cry repeated at soccer matches 11. Defunct Swedish automaker 12. Web mag 13. Cares for 14. Insecure feeling 19. Old salt 20. Channing's role in "Grease" 23. Genesis father of twins 24. Wafer brand 25. Practiced, as a trade 26. NBA's Hawks, on scoreboards 27. B'way sellout sign 28. Zap with a stun gun 29. More than most 33. French 101 verb 35. "Casablanca" heroine 36. Tangle removers 38. Strip of gear, as a ship 39. Sure thing 40. Attacks 43. "I'm a Mess" singer Rexha 47. __ Bauer 48. Inc. kin 49. Zodiac feline 51. Online news pioneer Huffington 53. Snide 55. Golden St. region 56. Renaissance painter Veronese 57. It usually shows AK and HI as insets 59. Ob-gyns, e.g. 60. Personal ad verb 62. Stick a fork in 65. Plastic __ Band 66. Pained outburst 67. Wash. neighbor 68. Old Mideast org. 69. Pathetic 70. Se–ora Per—n 71. Tennis match unit