L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sleight of hand?

5 Like pie?

11 Tennis stroke

14 Name on the 1949 “Death of a Salesman” playbill 15 Bug on the road? 16 Common cause of conflict

17 “The Karate Kid,” e.g. 20 Guide for surfers

21 Gray shades

22 Be of service to

23 Org. with traveling bans? 25 One hanging around a lifeguard tower

29 Studio once run by Howard Hughes

32 1958 Pulitzer author James

33 D.C. figures

34 Some museum art 36 16th-century council site 38 Unspecified degree 39 Footnote abbr.

40 Nasal partitions

41 “... or so it may __” 43 Unadulterated

44 Slangy okay

45 Ice cream named after a Canadian river 48 Quite a lot

50 Address in a mess 51 Confront aggressively 53 Swears

57 2013 Hudson's Bay Company acquisition

60 “... exclaim, __ he drove out of sight”: Moore 61 Sign with an arrow

62 Start to giver or taker 63 Befitting

64 Hazmat team members, often

65 Tae __ do

DOWN

1 Atlas display

2 Et __

3 Dust bunny component 4 Achieved some progress 5 Rubber eraser, for one 6 Go slowly

7 Sargasso Sea spawner

8 Pac. cousin

9 Christian in cinema 10 Ambiguous answer

11 Little big cat

12 Mythical monster

13 First and last word of a common four-word saw 18 Dr. Skoda on “Law & Order”

19 Bathing spot

23 Popular online lists 24 Discussed, with “over” 25 Mark

26 Come to terms

27 Daddy Warbucks, e.g. 28 Former Mormon leader Ezra Taft __

30 Actress Knightley 31 Blender brand 35 “Nosebleed seats” section

37 Supposes to be

42 Loses temporarily 46 Bodega patron 47 European capital 49 Fortune 500 listings: Abbr.

51 Sailing

52 Complain

53 Really good, in '90s slang

54 Rodents do it

55 Money in la banque 56 Treated by the doctor 58 Four-wk. period, usually

59 Minimum for many games