L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Moo __ pork

4 Low-level employment 9 Starz competitor

12 Police

14 Sweet text

15 “No argument”

16 “Don't make __ hard!” 17 Drew (in)

18 Backwoods possessive 19 “__, Brute?”

20 Some ski lifts

21 “It is the __, and Juliet is the sun”: Romeo

22 “How cool!”

24 Former JFK lander 25 “Burnt” pigment

26 Comic strip woman who married Irving

27 Baja bear

28 Mac

29 Language suffix 30 Prefaced

33 Au pair's subj.

34 Many Olympic events 35 Wolfs (down)

40 Vistula River city

46 Chef's hat

47 Little untruth

50 Ewe-ish? 51 Uncertainty

52 Master

53 Medieval weapons 54 Completes a road test maneuver ... or the answers to starred clues, as arranged

57 Game before the finals 58 Doughnut finish

59 Analogy words

61 __ II razor

62 One wearing gloves to work

63 Poolroom array

64 Tax form IDs

65 Pipsqueak

66 Omar of “House”

DOWN

1 *It may be political 2 Starbucks purchases 3 Lake Placid, vis-à-vis New York City

4 Jazz vibraphonist Jackson

5 Spritzer mixer

6 *Period in the Age of Reptiles

7 Intimation 8 Blossoms-to-be 9 Subject to court judgment

10 Common paella ingredients

11 *New Orleans time zone 13 *Deep __

15 *Main idea

23 Skinny toon Olive 25 Mysterious craft 31 Stammering sounds 32 Disapproving sound 35 Criterion: Abbr. 36 Craftsmen paid by the barrel?

37 Atlantis dweller of comics 38 Protocols

39 Greek cheese

41 Tomato variety

42 Greed

43 Creates, as a fuss 44 Ragtime dance

45 Director Craven 47 Uncultivated, as farmland 48 Mountaineer's aid 49 Richard of “Law & Order: SVU”

55 Pride parade letters

56 Heist puller

57 City map parts: Abbr.

60 CIA predecessor